Hotmail introduces new features

Microsoft Hotmail introduced “Graymail Solution”, a set of easy-to-use new features designed to help you manage your increasingly clogged inboxes to save you time for what’s really important in life – meeting friends and family, going to gym or just relaxing after a hectic day on the job. 

 

“Graymail, a term Microsoft coined, is best described as emails that, unlike spam, you have actively signed up to receive but more often than not are unwanted,” said Barrie Ooi, Head of Hotmail and SkyDrive, Microsoft Asia Pacific. “In fact, 75 percent of email identified as spam is actually graymail. A surprising 50% of your mail is newsletters, 17% social updates, 9% groups and other notifications, 6% shopping offers, and just 14% of your email is from people.” In 2012, the average email inbox will receive about 14,600 emails and the average user will spend over an hour a day just checking and organizing email. 

 

This is why Hotmail has developed the Graymail Solution, which combats email clog by making Hotmail even more powerful, quicker and easier-to-use than ever. 

 

This is how Hotmail can work for you: 

 

1)    Automates the inbox. Hotmail makes your inbox work for you. It lets you set up your inbox to automatically manage mail – graymail or not. Expired deals and outdated newsletters are automatically gone, bills go straight into folders with Hotmail’s custom categories tool and regretted subscriptions can be unsubscribed to in just one click.

 

2)    Accelerates the inbox. Hotmail makes finding and filtering content faster. Flagged messages go to the top of your inbox so they are always visible and easy to find, Hotmail’s customizable Instant Actions and One-click Filters let you get to emails they really care about in fewer clicks – and Sweep organizes or deletes all emails from specific senders. 

 

3)    Advances the email experience. Hotmail has added new power-user features for those with more extreme needs and multiple accounts. You can import emails from multiple accounts into Hotmail with POP support. Using right-click and drag-and-drop functions, you can also build more folders and arrange them in whatever order you want. And you can create aliases to allow for secondary addresses (even disposable ones) that direct emails to primary accounts without the senders knowing primary addresses – particularly useful for online shopping. 

 

“Momay” Napassorn Buranasiri, beauty guru, blogger and DJ is a devoted Hotmail user and entrepreneur. “I’ve been a Hotmail user for years, and these new features are great,” she says, “I’m always on the go and am really wired, so I get a lot of graymail from businesses and publications. Lots of this I’m interested in, but I don’t always have the time to sort or read right it away. Hotmail makes it easy to manage.”

 

“With one click, I can unsubscribe to what I don’t want to receive anymore, I can set rules to auto-direct emails into specific folders and can flag items that might be good to cover on my blog. It’s simple to set up, works really well and is easy to customize to fit all my needs,” continued Momay. 

Adds Barrie Ooi, “This is why Hotmail is the most popular web-based email service in Thailand and many other countries; it’s why more people in Thailand use Hotmail than any other web email. Thai users know how easy to use and intuitive Hotmail is, and they understand that we’re always thinking of new ways to help them manage their busy lives and their full inboxes.”  

 

These features are all available on Hotmail today.  For more information on graymail and further details on the features and videos that Hotmail is introducing as part of its Graymail Solution, please visit

http://windows.microsoft.com/th-th/hotmail/conquergraymail/autoplay?

 

www.conquergraymail.com