Email Basics Done Correctly

Getting the basics of email correct means continuously improving our services. Today Hotmail removes 98% of all spam before it can even reach your inbox. Our current version of Hotmail is ten times faster than before. We give every customer virtually unlimited storage. Hotmail is supported on all major smartphones. And we continue to be at the forefront of protecting our customers' accounts.

Even the experts at PC Magazine agree, with the new tools to make your inbox work for you, Hotmail is the best web-based email provider around.

PC Magazine: 14 November 2011
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Spam Protection

Over the past few years we've reduced the amount of spam from almost 35% to less than 3% of the messages that you see in your inbox. We continue to invest in our Trusted Sender and SmartScreen technologies, filtering out about 5.5 billion spam messages. Every single day.

Performance

Hotmail is 10x faster than previous versions. In fact, we've made the most common actions seem instantaneous. And we keep getting better. Our goal is to be the best at performing webmail service.

Security

Hotmail is the largest webmail provider in the world. That makes us a prime target for hijackers. We've knuckled down to increase protection for our users with advanced safeguards and features like My Friend's Been Hacked.

Storage

We re-architected Hotmail storage from the bottom up in 2004 and have grown our default inbox with each new version of Hotmail. Since 2009, we offer a virtually unlimited inbox.

Experience

Today, Hotmail users can receive two-way sync with email, calendars and contacts on all major smartphones, including Windows Phone, iPhones and Androids.