Microsoft Corp. today announced the most significant upgrade for Windows Live™ Hotmail^®, the successor to MSN^® Hotmail, is launching globally in 36 languages. This serivce is a result of vast feedback from more than 20 million beta testers. The slogan is “The new Hotmail brings you more. More space (2 GB), more security, still free. Sign up for our award-winning service.” Yes you heard it right a flat 2 GB of like yahoo and Google mail services and that in36 international languages.

The up gradation process begins on May 7th and people visiting for Hotmail Signup will be greeted with new screen where they will be asked to update to Windows Live™ Hotmail^®. There are around 280 billion people using MSN^® Hotmail.Windows Live Hotmail is safe and more productive with flexibility as it can be accessed from anywhere any time be it mobile or web

Check out the complete set of images on Microsoft itself.

Features of Windows Live™ Hotmail^®

• Use Windows Live™ Hotmail^{® from mobile with richer experience.}
• More like Outlook, check out the images link i gave before
• Access to Windows Live Services.
• Visual Notice on the “Safety Bar” which can tell if the email is a phishing trick.
• Choice of color.
• Ability to switch back to classic view if the speed goes down or you don’t want it.
• Enough space to keep every email you get.

Feature of Windows Live™ Hotmail^® to come

• Outlook Connector which will enable to people to view their account from Outlook for free and access everything like address book and others which they had been using in hotmail
• A free consumer e-mail client in coming weeks that will be available via download it will be a successor to Outlook Express and Windows Mail on Windows Vista™.

So what do you think about this ? Do you think gmail is still better or you like yahoo more…share your views in the comments