Via Walter Stiers:
End of August, the Windows Live Hotmail team finished to upgrade the Hotmail mailboxes! Today, your free Hotmail account has an amazing five gigabytes of email storage (10Gb if you have a Hotmail Plus account).
This wasn't the only benefit of this upgrade! The update also rolled out:
- Improved performance
- Changes into the amount of time junk and deleted mail are retained
- The ability to merge duplicate contacts
- An easier way to view blocked images
- Phishing reporting
- Smaller header (devoting more page space to read email)
- Automatic forwarding of your mail to other Hotmail accounts (paid accounts can forward to Gmail, Yahoo, or anywhere else)
- Branded email hosting for universities
- Accepting Outlook meeting requests in the Hotmail Calendar
- Auto-replies for when you go on vacation
- The ability to go to your inbox by default, instead of the Today page
More info on http://get.live.com/mail/features