Get multiple e-mail accounts in one place—not only Hotmail, but Gmail, Yahoo!*, and many more. Plus, you can start a Windows Live Messenger conversation right from your inbox, or jump right into the latest updates from your friends' Windows Live Spaces blogs.

Send high-resolution photos without clogging their inboxes with gigantic attachments. Your contact will see a thumbnail image embedded in your message. When they click on it, they'll see the full-sized picture, at a private Web location. Plus, you can do basic photo editing, add borders, and control just how the thumbnail images are displayed in your e-mail.

Use Windows Live Mail to help maximize privacy, safety, and security across your e-mail accounts. Spam filters scan for junk e-mail, red and yellow warning bars tell you when a message seems to be suspicious, and the "Delete and block" button lets you tell scammers to buzz off.

So, for some reason you've got Hotmail, Yahoo!*, and Gmail? (It's okay, we've all got our reasons.) Windows Live Mail is your e-mail command center where you can get messages and manage multiple accounts in one place: your desktop.

Quick views show you specific categories of messages from across all of your e-mail and news accounts. You select the quick views you want and see them in the folder pane.

Make it yours. Change the colors, move columns around, and show just the stuff you want to see.

Get content feeds delivered directly to your inbox—from news sites, blogs, and anywhere else that offers RSS. (RSS means "Really Simple Syndication," and is a way for websites to send out their content.)