04-07-2006, 08:41 AM
Quote:For years, loyal Hotmail users like me - unwilling to give up our longtime e-mail addresses - waited patiently for Bill Gates and company to catch up.
Enter Microsoft's Hotmail overhaul - code-named "Kahuna," so-named to reflect what the company considers a big wave of innovation. For now, though, Kahuna falls short.
About 1 million of Hotmail's 230 million active users are now using a "beta" test of Kahuna, formally known as Windows Live Mail. The product ties into the rollout of Microsoft's Live brand, which will one day integrate multiple pieces of software in one bundle for users to access over the Web.
With the facelift, Hotmail looks much more like Microsoft's Outlook desktop software than a traditional Web product...
full article: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/1...tmail.html