Let’s take a look to those new features:

• Associating devices to Hotmail. This is a very nice security feature, you can add a device to your account, like a mobile phone, and if you lose control of the Hotmail access you can send a security code to recover your account. This will only work for one time.
• Push email support for mobile phones using Exchange ActiveSync app. This application is the one used on iPhone and Android when you want to configure your Hotmail accounts. The “push” feature of the mail protocol is used from the mail server which delivers every new mail directly to the device or web client; while using “push” you don’t have to refresh your mailbox to retrieve new mails.
• Unifying contacts. Hotmail will also receive as contacts your friends and connections from social networks like Facebook and Linkedin.

Even though Hotmail, as the most popular web mail, was left behind by amazing features in Gmail; these new ones are pretty sweet and not available on Google’s offering.

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Microsoft is Improving Hotmail originally appeared on: Crenk
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