Live Update - Right Now.

Wow, Windows LiveMail apparently updated while I was reading a message, causing this notice to appear. What are the odds that they'd push an update in the middle of the afternoon? Isn't that something that should be done off-peak?

BTW, no - the update did not change the "We only spell check the first 2,000 characters" issue.

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ETA (November, 2008). Hotmail has done another update. This time the 2,000 character spell check limit has been removed. Good on you, HotMail, LiveMail, Microsoft, or whatever you're calling yourself these days! Nice job.

Spell Check Limit? Please...

I really don't get it. I've used web based e-mail from Yahoo, GMail, Comcast, even Netscape back in the day. Why oh why does Hotmail (aka Windows Live Mail) have a 2,000 character spell checking limit?

GMail / GChat Adds AIM Interaction

The lines in the sand appear to have been drawn.

Yahoo Mail has a Yahoo Messenger interface through Yahoo web mail .
GMail has a GChat interface through GMail's web interface.

Yahoo Chat can cross communicate with Windows Messenger
GChat can now cross communicate with AOL Instant Messenger (AIM)

That leaves Hotmail/Windows Live Mail as the only remaining mail program without an integrated web based chat system.