Hotmail

Now you can access free Microsoft Office application to view, edit and share office documents without downloading it to your computer. All you need to do is sending any document or PowerPoint presentation to your email address. Therefore, you can open those documents at any time, that are because your documents are now available on Hotmail Cloud, then you do not need to use a computer to access it.

You also can view and amend presentations on Office Web application. After you have saved changes, it will automatically be stored on Skydrive. You can run the presentation slides without installing Office on your computer.

If your friends or colleagues and you want to work on the same document at the same time, so you can do it easier by using new updated Hotmail version.

Click on the file which currently appears on Skydrive of the sender to view it online. While editing, you can see the number of the editor doing editing the file on the bottom left-hand side. You also can check all changes immediately made by other team members.

A selective One Click Filter of emails has been introduced in the new Hotmail version, which allows you to filter email with social networking updates, emails from regular contacts and group easily.

When someone is giving you video links, Flickr photos….in email, in order o view them, you need to open the link to a new window of your browser. However, new Hotmail automatically recognizes the link, additional description, and thumbnail pictures and allows you are viewing videos directly on email interface. Similarly, you also can view Flickr picture and even can view a slideshow from your inbox. It recognizes tracking numbers, postal services and shows all related information. Besides that, you can accept the Linkedin invitations without accessing its website.

If you only want to check the emails which have images, you can quickly filter those emails by clicking “Photos” on the left side. Similarly, you can click on “Documents” to view all messages and attachments.

The combination of Hotmail and Skydrive makes it is possible to send large files up to 10GB in one email. The files saved on Skydrive service can be stored at 25GB-free storage space. When sending large files (documents or images, file zip,…) via email, the recipients only receive an URL (a link) of the files. The recipients do not necessary to have an account on Skydrive to download them; click in the link is all they need to do.

You can attach the number of image files in your mail. All the uploaded images into Skydrive and recipients will be received a link, which allows you to watch a slideshow of interactive images, download them (no Windows Live ID required) as well as able to leave comments (Windows Live ID needed).

If you or your colleagues send a document that needs some amendments and re-send it. Normally you have to download that document to a computer then making amendments, attach and then resend it.  

If you have conversations with your friends in some topics by email, which eventually sent to various persons. Now you want to view all of those conversations in one place; this is possible in Hotmail with a new option “conversation”

Click “Arrange By” on the right side (under the searching box) and choose “Conversation” from the drop-down list, allow you to view all conversations. Moreover, when you read those messages, it presents the whole history of date and time of the conversations.

Autocomplete search

To search for a mail effectively, Hotmail has been added Search Autocomplete. Type the needed keywords and it automatically suggests the useful results.

If you have conversations with your friends in a number of the topic by email, which eventually sent to various persons. Now you want to view all of those conversations in one place; this is possible in Hotmail with a new option “conversation”

Click “Arrange By” on the right side (under the searching box) and choose “Conversation” from the drop-down list, allow you to view all conversations. Moreover, when you read those messages, it presents the whole history of date and time of the conversations.

Hotmail divides spam into 2 types: “Spam” and “Graymail” (newsletters and other marketing programs and promotions). The filter system goes through new spam of Hotmail based on IP Address filter, which works very efficiently.

It works rely on the interaction of the users with their emails. If the users always place an email into “Trash” folder without reading afterward, then Hotmail will consider it as “Greymail” and block it in the future.

You can manage a messy inbox by using this feature. If you receive a daily message that you do not need, all you have to do is selecting that email, click “Sweep” then “Move all from…” or “Delete all from…”.  You can opt to “Also move future emails” to confirm that mail will not be sent to your inbox in the future.