Hotmail gets hotter

Hotmail swankier avatar features Microsoft SmartScreen that helps intuitively distinguish between legitimate e-mails and spam.

Hotmail has undergone a makeover.Its swankier avatar features Microsoft SmartScreen that helps intuitively distinguish between legitimate e-mails and spam; one-click sweep which allows consumers to take bulk action to clean, delete or organise emails into folders; and powerful spam filters that help combat spammer infrastructure, thus making sending spam more difficult.

The hot, new Live Messenger High Definition Video Chat and real-time online gaming allows users to share images and videos from Bing.