After releasing the brand new weboffice which according to Microsoft it is more advanced than Google Docs Microsoft announced that they are releasing their brand new hotmail service called Windows Live Essentials 2011. The new version of hotmail suppose to support gmail services such as the filtering function that they got from gmail. Another new service will be mostly beneficial for mobile users. Microsoft is going do release a client for mobiles to connect to hotmail mail services.
Also, Microsoft is planning to connect the Hotmail services with other services such as Facebook and Twitter.
