what is going on with hotmail regarding email and chatting facality?
Today Microsoft announced the integration of Windows Live Messenger with Windows Live Hotmail Microsoft finally thinks it’s OK to integrate Windows Live Hotmail and Messenger At last, after almost every other web based email service had integrated IM integrated to their email service, Microsoft does the same. Today Microsoft announced the integration of Windows Live Messenger with Windows Live Hotmail. While many of its competitors including Yahoo and Google had done so a very long time, the move is definitely worth welcoming (sounds pretty much like traditional Microsoft). This comes after a few upgrades and hiccups that Windows Live Hotmail had been going through over the recent past. Sources: http://startupmeme.
Windows Live Hotmail is gradually integrating the web version of its Windows Live Messenger. As soon as this feature gets activated in your Hotmail account, you can now start IM sessions with your Windows Live Messenger contacts even if you don’t login to Windows Live Messenger. Instead, you can login to your Windows Live Hotmail account and you will see an embedded Web IM facility.If you have more than one Windows Live ID, you can sign in to web Messenger and regular Messenger at the same time, with different IDs.If you’re a Yahoo Messenger user, you’d know that this same feature has been present in your Yahoo Mail long before Microsoft has thought of having this feature on their Windows Live Hotmail. Even Google through its Google Labs has allowed us to chat with our contacts inside Gmail inbox. This chat facility takes GTalk, Google’s Instant Messenger or Chat facility, inside Gmail.But better late than never, right? So, Microsoft is rolling a web IM embedded on their Windows Live H