New/changed features in Hotmail Update
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This solution article gives you information on the new features that are added and the features that have changed with the Hotmail update which starts on August 31st 2009.
Please Note: Since we rollout in a staggered approach not all users will see the change on the same day. The update will happen over a few weeks and should be site wide by end of September.
Here is a list of changes:
Auto Refresh of Inbox
If a user is logged into WebIM, their inbox will automatically refresh. Currently this is set to 60 seconds.
Please note that customers currently will not have an option to change the refresh interval or turn off this option.
Auto save Drafts
Emails are now automatically saved to the drafts folder while a user is composing them. This is currently set to 3 minutes.
Please note that customers currently will not have an option to change the save interval or turn off this option.
Keyboard Shortcuts
Lots of keyboard shortcuts, including shortcuts to match both Yahoo and Gmail. A new page in Options to choose what type of shortcuts you'd like to use. Click here for the full list.
Contact Picker Improvements
Users can now edit contacts in compose, recently e-mailed data used in auto-complete and contact picker, copy/paste enabled for IE, verify recipients enabled
Verify recipients: When the user types in an email address, upon completion of the email address, Hotmail verifies if the email address is "valid". If the recipient is bad, it is flagged "Red" and the user can edit the entry. When the user hovers over the email address, we will show a tooltip that explains the email address is bad.
Download all attachments
If there are multiple attachments on an email, they can now be downloaded together as one zip file.
WebIM Contact List
Buddy list of online friends now available from the WebIM Dropdown
Mobile browser improvements
A number of backend changes to improve performance on mobile devices/browsers
Action Bar at bottom of page
Reply/Forward/Delete is now available from both the top and bottom of an email
