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accounts will sync up with calendars, contacts and other user information stored on mobile devices and in the desktop version of Outlook. Outlook is designed cloud first, so all of your mail is always available wherever you are." "In fact, email represents 20 per cent of the time we spend on smartphones and is used extensively on tablets as well as PCs. "Email isn't just about the browser anymore," Jones wrote. It will also eventually integrate Skype video chats. He said will allow users to more seamlessly stay in contact with their friends on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google by displaying status updates, tweets, shared photos and other social network information right in their inbox. "Email is becoming less and less useful as inboxes become cluttered with newsletters and social updates, and people increasingly keep up their personal connections in social networks instead of their email address books," Jones wrote. In a blog post Tuesday, Microsoft vice-president Chris Jones said the redesign is an attempt to make email relevant again in an era increasingly dominated by mobile devices and social applications. It will get rid of the display ads and large search boxes that take up space in Hotmail and display 30 per cent more messages than are currently visible in Hotmail and other webmail programs. The company said the new webmail site will have a cleaner look and work well with smartphones and tablets. Ironically, it was the hacker who got in touch with Vice Motherboard to inform that the mails were read.Microsoft is replacing its pioneering webmail service Hotmail with a new browser-based version of Outlook, its desktop email application. The other factor being pointed out is that the technology major had not agreed in the first place that the mails’ contents were also read. The company’s mails appear to have gone out to only users and not to the others. Microsoft is yet to confirm how many such accounts were hacked in all.Įxperts tracing the hacking incident point out that it was not known to many that in addition to the accounts, there were MSN and Hotmail accounts also that were hacked. Mainly, it was not informed that the hacker managed to read the contents of the users' mails and not just the subject or the heading. And when it did, the full scale of the hack was not shared with the customers.

Microsoft took its own time acknowledging that the hack occurred in the first place. It was an independent Vice Motherboard that first brought to the notice of the public that their accounts could have been hacked.