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Congrats to the Hotmail team at Microsoft for deploying the new version of the Hotmail service to users and removing that beta tag. Following are links to the details of the launch.

Windows Live Hotmail launches
After a year long beta, Windows Live Hotmail launched yesterday with a whole bunch of new features including 2 gigabytes of storage, Outlook-like design, auto-completion and more.

Rebuilding Hotmail from scratch
A fascinating look at the rebuilding of the Hotmail service.

Windows Live Hotmail vs Gmail
Pete Cashmore over at Mashable compares the new Windows Live Hotmail to Gmail. Is it time to switch? I won’t ruin it for you as we are platform agnostic here at Boxbe.

Other links: Webware, Techcrunch, eWeek.

Undelivered e-mail an offshoot of spam-prevention
John Agsalud of the Honolulu Star Bulletin reports on the increase in false positives in spam filtering systems (FYI, a false positive is a message incorrectly identified as spam).

This battle of good versus evil has been going on for years. Unfortunately, the bad guys have improved their stock so much that the good guys are starting to have a difficult time fighting back. The end result? The good guys’ software is becoming more error-prone and mis-identifying messages as spam when they really are not.

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