The only problem… they aren’t new.
Reading through Paul Thurrott’s SuperSite Blog last week, it appears that Microsoft announced new integration of Windows Live Hotmail and Bing. While it’s fine and dandy for the two products to work together, they announced a feature that has existed since February. Heck, they even own up to it:
We announced in February that Windows Live was piloting a new feature unique to Hotmail we’re calling “quick add.”
They went on to say that they were adding Bing integration to the “quick add” feature (the currently available options for which can be seen to your right). In reality, nothing at all changed with this feature. Don’t get me wrong, this could be a very useful thing, but every single option that is there was there yesterday, and as I recall, has been for a long while. Obviously, before June it was powered by Live Search, but as far as I know, it worked for the past month too.
Apparently, there’s not much new in the Hotmail department.
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I don’t use the web based mail because its slow, but also I can’t stand the washed out cartoon-ish themes they got going on there. Hopefully wave 4 will see a return of some darker, more professional themes,
Hotmail is decades behind Gmail. I’m not sure why people still use it in 2009, especially when Gmail can automatically fetch everything from Hotmail over POP so you don’t have to worry about the new address.