Open Thread: What Do You Think of the New Hotmail?

It’s been a week since the rollout of the new version of Hotmail began and I’m still waiting for my account to be updated. While Liz described the updated Hotmail as “no knockout” over on our sister site GigaOM, particularly lamenting its lack of social features, I’m keen to test the new release and see how it compares to my webmail tool of choice, Gmail. I’m especially looking forward to trying out its Office integration.

The slow rollout might be a little frustrating, but as Microsoft’s Phil Smoot explains, Hotmail’s servers are grouped into clusters, and the new software is being released to a cluster at a time in order to minimize potential problems and downtime. There are more than 100 clusters serving the 360 million or so people who visit Hotmail every month. It may be a while before everyone sees the new version, so I thought that I would ask those lucky WWD readers whose accounts have already been updated: What do you think of the new Hotmail? I’m particularly keen to hear how you think it compares to Gmail.

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