Digital Home Thoughts: Hotmail Updates Makes It The New Hotness

"In all then we have a mixture of long overdue, interesting and genuinely exciting new features here. Hotmail has been something of a laughing stock in recent years, but with these major changes it looks like it won't be the butt of geeky jokes for much longer. A video preview of the new Hotmail system can be found at the link below and the upgraded service will go live worldwide "in mid-summer"."

If you are not like me, you probably use one of the free webmail services out there. And if you use Hotmail, you probably have noticed or will notice some changes that are afoot. In a world of Tweeting and Facebook, it is nice to know that the good old standby, email, has not been forgotten. Of the changes you can expect, the ones I think people will probably find most useful is the integration with social networking sites and an updated mobile interface. I, unashamedly, use Outlook as my primary email client, mostly because it does serve my needs. With that, I am also a traditionalist when it comes to email and communicating with people. I do not post things on my Facebook wall for the world to see, nor do I tweet what I had to dinner. So while all this integration is great, I am just comforted that if the major webmail providers have seen fit to keep updating their webmail clients, email is not going away!