Microsoft: Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4 Rolling Out

Microsoft has confirmed officially that it is rolling out the first development milestone of Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4. Of course that the Redmond company is shy of using the Wave 4 reference. Instead, a member of the Windows Live Hotmail team referred to “improvements in current Hotmail features,” while indicating that enhancements will be rolled out soon. However, the important detail is that the software giant has acknowledged that it has started serving the evolution of Windows Live Hotmail to customers.

“The Hotmail team has started rolling out updates to improve your Hotmail experience. Most of these are improvements to current features and are meant to make your current Hotmail experience more efficient,” the Windows Live Hotmail representative said, noting that Microsoft plans to offer additional details on the improvements it is introducing to Windows Live Hotmail.

In this regard, the company promised that it would offer information on the updates to its email service in the coming weeks, and invited users to keep an eye out. However, according to the Support Technical Lead for Windows Live Hotmail, the upgrades have started being rolled out since the end of August 2009. At the same time, the Support Technical Lead for Windows Live Hotmail also mentioned that the released was catalogued as M1. Microsoft has yet to officially refer to Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4 Milestone 1 (M1). This even though the general improvements mentioned by the Windows Live team representative coincide with those enumerated for Milestone 1.

“Look for these updates coming to your Hotmail inbox soon: more keyboard shortcuts, a new buddy list for when you sign into your web Messenger from within your Hotmail inbox, improvements to help you pick contacts for your messages, auto-save for your email drafts, and the ability to download all files in a message as a zip file (versus one by one),” the Windows Live Hotmail team member added.