Atlast there's room to read my mail that I get in live mail. The UI has been updated so that you can go back to the old Hotmail way, stick with the new 3 column way or change to the outlook express way (2 columns with the mail reader underneath). It still selects the top email in your list and sets it as read even if it's new in or is full of spam or what ever. I think that it would be better not to automatically select any email.

There's a little shortcut panel unfortunately there's no roll-over or mouse change on the images to indicate that you can click on them, so a little more work needed there aswell.

Still it's getting better and I have to admit that the spam filter is a damn sight better that it was previously.

Well my Windows Live invitation arrived in my email account today, so I signed up for it straight away.

So far so good, it's a little clunky but so far so good. I'm actually more than impressed by the www.live.com homepage, when I load it in IE and sign into my email it actually crashes my browser. Firefox on the other hand coped admirably.

The actual mail view is very nice. All ajaxy and very smooth. A nice clean interface, now I just wish I had some actual mail to read. Since gmail I've just used my hotmail account as a dumping ground for spam. We'll just have to see how live handles spam. These spam filter options are a little confusing though:

Low - Obvious junk e-mail is sent to the junk e-mail folder.
What's the difference between obvious and most?