It's the rare webmail inbox that isn't overloaded with unwanted crud -- hundreds of messages of questionable origin, dating back to somewhere around the turn of the century. This is particularly true ...

What can Hotmail offer over a certain emerging webmail standard? A good bit, it turns out. Windows Live Hotmail now offers inbox-cleaning Sweep and filter functions, Exchange support, direct Office ...

Ever wished you could have multiple email addresses that all routed to the same inbox, without having to set up a bunch of different accounts and forwarding options? Hotmail — yes, the email service ...

According to Microsoft Corp., 75% of email messages that Hotmail users report as spam are actually legitimate email marketing recipients just don’t want anymore. To help address this issue, Windows ...

Hotmail is old. Really old. When Hotmail launched in the summer of 1996 as the first free e-mail system available to everyone, Bill Clinton was running for re-election, the economy was booming, and ...

Active Views were introduced to Hotmail last year to allow links to Flickr, YouTube, and Hulu to be viewed without ever having to leave your inbox. Instead, the content shows up within the e-mail ...

Daily deals, social networking alerts, and email newsletters. Sure, you might have agreed to receive them, but if your email inbox is your digital workbench, do you really want all that stuff sitting ...

Back in the days before Gmail, webmail on the Internet was really, really bad. Inboxes were limited to 10 or 20 megabytes, interfaces were slow and ugly, and the experience simply didn’t come close to ...