AS JOURNALISTS, INQers can’t possible sign up to Microsoft’s Beta programme as we’d be disclosing the Beast’s trade secrets. However, there is a sneak preview which you don’t have to sign up to with your own blood. That shows that Hotmail will get a very definite Outlook ‘look and feel’, once Windows Live Mail is eventually launched. The biggest difference is an ability to preview emails without being sent off to another screen (which currently can prove very irritating.)
If you are anticipating the Live Mail, then check out the posting at The Inq.