Hotmail is reborn. On October 3, 2011, Monday, Microsoft pushed the reboot button on the world’s biggest email service. It unveiled a series of new features intended to help the email service’s approximately 350 million users better sort through the clutter in their inboxes. Because of the company’s efforts to fight a negative public perception of Hotmail, five new features were rolled out at Windows Live event in San Francisco.

One new feature is a new tool to deal with “graymail”, which means newsletters and social networking updates that aren’t quite considered spam but aren’t quite considered legitimate emails. It is a way to automatically clean up an inbox, improve flags to move key emails to the top of the mailbox, and more.  Continue reading →