Lorgor

Ok, Windows Live Hotmail final is launched, Outlook Connector will be launched next months, Windows Live Mail Desktop took the name Windows Live Mail with upcoming new build. The new WL Hotmail is a part of Windows Live service and platform–well what’s the team though about new Hotmail at begriming, back to last 2.5 years.

Richard Sim, Senior Product Manager for Windows Live Hotmail posted interesting background building Hotmail from scratch.

• rearchitected the entire service from scratch,
• swapped out the backend storage infrastructure (literally swapping out old boxes for new ones)
• instrumented user actions,
• created new ways to serve advertisements,
• developed new advertising products,
• created a scalable and flexible mail platform to power email for universities and other partners,
• managed a large scale beta process with a continuous user feedback loop,
• redesigned our product development and deployment processes,
• streamlined our signup flows,
• opened up Outlook client access for ALL free users (coming very soon),
• created a Windows Live Contacts (subscribe to contact updates) service,
• created a new selection paradigm for email client applications (dynamic checkboxes) which has been eventually adopted by Yahoo Mail Beta,   
• and released a new safety bar to educate users about the context of every mail that arrives in his/her inbox

You known that official code name is “Kahuna”, but the original is “Tsunami”– the disaster over western coast of southern of my country.

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