Microsoft launches Windows Live Mail in Holland

Microsoft launches Windows Live Mail in Holland

Software giant Microsoft has finally launched the Windows Live Mail service. Interestingly, the first launch of this service has been made in Holland instead of their home market in the United States.

Windows Live Mail is Microsoft’s successor to their age old Hotmail web mail service. It is now updated with new features to take on similar offerings from Google Gmail and Yahoo! Mail Beta.

The users in Holland would be offered mail addresses with @live.nl extension.

The Windows Live Mail team wrote about this launch which took place in Holland: “Why the Netherlands? Well, the Netherlands is a prime location for the preview because of the local popularity of Hotmail. We will be using this experience to test some new scenarios, like those surrounding Windows Live IDs, as well as to go deeper into customer feedback. We will then incorporate and make improvements based on this feedback before launching in additional markets in the coming months.”

Richard Sim, product planner for Windows Live Mail added that as many as a third of all Holland residents have a Hotmail account.

He further added: “Windows Live Mail is an entirely new product we’ve built from scratch. It includes a completely new set of code we’ve done to re-architect the front end, and involves migration to a whole new back end, and storage that allows us to scale, index and search in ways that weren’t possible before.”