Looks like Microsoft also released Windows Live Hotmail. My Hotmail is no longer special.

The interface to Windows Live Hotmail is a lot like Outlook 2003 and runs like it too. If it wasn’t for the fact that I am quite into my Gmail POP3 I’d probably be using it. It has drag-n-drop, a preview pane, multi-selection, and colour themes.

It has been a long time in development. The only thing now is that people generally don’t like change forced upon them. I remember showing people WLHotmail and they disliked it cause it was so radically different. And I don’t think classic mode can help with that. Still, it is quite nice.