Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4 Coming

Microsoft has started rolling out Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4. Currently, only a very few number of people have received the changes and new features. It was released on the 31st of August and is said to be rolled out over the first few weeks of September. Below are some of the new features of Wave 4 Windows Live Hotmail:

• Auto Refresh of Inbox: Inbox is refreshed when a user is logged into WebIM, instead of after 60 seconds.
• Auto save Drafts: emails automatically saved to drafts as they are composed.  Current auto save is set to 3 minutes
• Keyboard Shortcuts: “Lots of keyboard shortcuts, including shortcuts to match both Yahoo and Gmail.”
• Contact Picker Improvements:
  • edit contacts in compose
  • recent email data used in auto-complete and contact picker
  • copy/paste enabled in IE
  • a “verify recipients” feature added
• Download all attachments: multiple attachments to an email downloaded together as a .zip file
• WebIM Contact List: “view online contacts” added:

• Mobile browser improvements: backend changes to improve mobile performance
• Action Bar at bottom
  of page: Reply/Forward/Delete is now available from both the top and bottom of an email.