![]() ![]() They were laggards in increasing the mail account storage on Hotmail because of the mail protocol used on the service (DAV – Distributed Authoring and Versioning protocol) was not capable of handling large space inboxes. Microsoft had to do something about this. ![]() Though, Hotmail was one of the first services to offer free online email accounts, its subscriber base was very badly affected with the launch of 1GB Gmail and the loyalty of Yahoo!Mail users and their subsequent reward of an unlimited storage space inbox email account. I think the thrust came from the fact that Microsoft’s Hotmail (Windows Live Hot mail) was losing ground to Gmail an Yahoo!Mail. The reasons for introducing a new email client even though they had the popular Outlook Express and Windows Mail on Vista are known best to the company but we can always speculate. Why has Microsoft released Windows Live Mail? ![]() Point your browser to the web site address to download Windows Live Mail. Make sure you save this executable file to a temporary folder on your computer and then proceed to Windows Live Mail installation. Downloading this file takes a couple of minutes (depending on your internet connection speeds) because it is less than 2.5MB. Outlook Express could be downloaded with Internet Explorer web browser (till version 6) and Windows Mail was preinstalled on Vista however, Windows Live Mail is available as a separate free download file from the web site. Windows Live Mail – free download file available Understanding the need for better communication as well as email security issues, Microsoft has added many features to Windows Live Mail including the cool Photo-email that lets you send high resolution photographs from your digital camera without clogging the inbox of the recipients, automated junk email filter, a super fast search utility and much more. ![]()
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