Hotmail Makeover

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Hotmail fans and users will be pleased to know that Microsoft is giving Hotmail a complete makeover. Users should be able to experience the new upgrade in July this year. This overhaul is indeed a much needed and awaited one in view of the massive and rapid progress of social networking. The makeover is believed to see the service have more customization with mail sorting. Where the service will automatically sort incoming messages into different categories devoted to users' key contacts and various networks. It will also sync more readily with mobile phones. Emails sent with photos and videos will show thumbnail previews without the user having to open an attachment or click on a link. Other tools are being added to make it less cumbersome to send photos, videos, documents and other attachments to email recipients. A new insert bar will allow users to send up to 10 gigabytes - about 200 photos each containing 50 megabytes - by uploading them to Microsoft's free online storage service Skydrive, where they can only be viewed by the recipients of the e-mail. As for security, this is what I am very mindful of - Microsoft also will try to make Hotmail more secure. Embracing a change recently made by Gmail, Microsoft is adding a so-called 'secure sockets layer' (denoted by "https" before a Web address) that encrypts email to make it less vulnerable to computer hackers. This is indeed great news for Hotmail users and I just can't wait to see these new developments implemented. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1279427/Microsoft-gives-Hotmail-major-makeover.html