Windows Live Mail has hit its latest milestone update, M10, and with it, Microsoft"s e-mail service has been renamed to Windows Live Hotmail, in an effort to keep the familiar Hotmail branding. Microsoft started rolling out M10 to certain users on March 22 but today seems to be the day Microsoft chose to release it to the masses. However, if you still haven"t got it, the reason is: "we"re deploying it slowly to users because we have so many users now. That way, if there"s a problem with the release, fewer users will be affected by the problem. This is a pretty common practice for web software these days," according to Ellie Powers-Boyle, program manager.
In M10, switching between the classic and full versions can be done on the Today page (beneath the storage meter), the inbox (bottom), and of course in options. The full M10 version includes a customizable (colour and style) reading pane, drag and drop functionality, keyboard shortcuts, WLMessenger integration and so on. The classic version now has spell check, the Photo upload control, Bi-Directional language support (for Arabic and Hebrew users) and improvements to the safety bar. In general, M10 is supposedly faster and more reliable. There are some other more subtle changes here and there (fonts, button placement etc.), but that"s the general idea. See the link below for more details.