Worked for me after a couple tries and deleting my temp internet files. I like it much better than regular Hotmail. Thanks OP.

Hahaha said:desi100 said:DonC said:1: I copied and pasted it and was immediately taken to the "Windows Live Mail Beta" page where I could accept or decline.

2: No sign in prompt

3: It did work. I didn't need to paste it again. I selected "Join Mail Beta" (no "Participate").

4: I don't see a difference.


What am I missing?

I am having the same problem.

Same here! It only worked for me when I was signed into hotmail. I pasted OP's url while in there and got the beta screen. click yes and it put be right back in hotmail but with the new format.

lavince said:I've tried it and decided to undo it for several reasons.

1. Firefox is a no go.
2. St@ples mails (and others) are pre-formatted, and live mail will cut off part of it for the MS ads. No resize/scroll bar option for those emails.
3. If there is a spam email and you want to delete it from the inbox, you will have to drag it to the trash/spam box. However while you drag it the email will be open and mark as read.

Overall it has a nice GUI but not much different than the old hotmail system in terms of the features.

I was using since a week, The interface was nice if you have large monitor.
Just FYI... To delete the spam mail you can right click and choose delete option, If you want to delelte bunch of spam mail - Hold Ctrl/Shift Key and select the unwanted mail then right click and choose delete.

worked for me, sign in and copy and paste again, click join, that's it, so hotmail-->live mail, thanks op

one PC does not work. Changed a PC. worked just fine. thanks!

'bout time MS actually makes their webmail look similar to OWA. Thanks OP!

I don't see what the big fuss is either. They didn't arrange this right cause there's like not enough room for all the panes. Don't get too excited just cause this is "new".

I still think gmail is better.

Their local live however could compete with google with their close up satellite pics.

batcatman said:thanks op, worked just fine....looks a lot cleaner and managed then hotmail otherwise.

I'll say it's a lot cleaner. Worked fine for me except zero of my email shows up now. Oops.

does anyone know if it'll work if you just sign up for a new hotmail account?? i tried it to do that and it doesnt work....

i have other 2 hotmail accounts for over 2 yrs and it worked just fine in the first try..however, i'm having trouble setting up windows live mail on the newly made account..

Maxie said:Can't seem to be able to turn off the preview pane. That's not very good.

Login using firefox. No preview pane there..