Microsoft is adding a mini-calendar view to its Hotmail pages.
The software giant announced the view in a blog post celebrating 15 years of Hotmail. “We’re rolling out the mini-calendar on a trial basis now in order to get feedback and expect to turn it on for all users soon,” said Microsoft’s Dick Craddock. The Hotmail team has also added a “go to” option that allows users to view messages from a particular date.
Microsoft is celebrating 15 years of Hotmail this week. The software maker now has over 360 million unique users per month of the service. Here’s Hotmail’s vital statistics:
- 360 million unique users per month
- 5.5 billion spam messages filtered each day
- 14 billion photos sent through photo mail since launch
- Over 40 million people use Office Web Apps in Hotmail each month
- Sweep feature has swept hundreds of millions of messages from Inboxes.
- Over 3 million email aliases already created
- 5 million people chat with Facebook friends via Hotmail
- 200 million Active View emails delivered last month
Microsoft has been improving Hotmail rapidly over the last 12 months. The software maker recently announced a number of new Outlook-like features and a 10x speed improvement on Hotmail from six months ago. The company isn’t going to stop there though, Microsoft plans to keep adding new features to Hotmail over the coming weeks and months to make the service even better for its millions of users. “We hope you’ve enjoyed Hotmail over the last 15 years,” says Craddock before promising that the team has more features up its sleeves. “We’re just getting started – there’s a lot more to come.”
New Hotmail calendar view