Originally Posted by Steve H

Head over to Hotmail

Enter anything@hotmail.co.uk (this will not be your email address yet) and any password, click "Sign in"

Click "Register with .NET Passport" on the login failiure page

Complete the form and you have yourself a nice new hotmail.co.uk address

You can also do this with other country specific domains such as hotmail.co.jp


Just got this from another board, and I don't think its yet been 'officially' launched. So grab the names you want before someone else does ;)

Originally Posted by swoop101

thanks got swoop101@hotmail.co.uk

just noticed that it is a 25mb mailbox as well. :p:

Originally Posted by Salu

There are lots of hotmail.co.uk addresses on ebay already!!

Originally Posted by Neowin

MSN Hotmail users will enjoy a variety of new features today. First of all, a long delayed upgrade in mail box size is being rolled out across new sign ups, as well as existing members. After a 30 day "trust" period (size starts at 25Mb) new users get upgraded to the larger sized mailbox. Hotmail users will be restricted (like Gmail) with a 10Mb cap on message size. Hotmail have also added addition photo features, including the ability to touch up photos and compress them. Microsoft wants to make it easier for Hotmail users to share photos online.

Hotmail have also updated their anti-virus and anti-spam software. Hotmail, long viewed as a major target for spammers, is attempting to crack down on the junk mail that may be sending its users elsewhere. Microsoft has introduced the SenderID framework, an anti-spam system. How effective this will be is still unknown; SenderID has gained little support from the open source community (i.e. apache, spamassasin - major tools in email) and until Microsoft resolve this by relaxing the licensing issues the technology could see reduced uptake regardless of how effective it is.

One major improvement that non-US customers will enjoy is country specific hotmail domains. For example, users in the UK can now register at hotmail.co.uk, as can French users at hotmail.fr. This improvement will probably be the most noticed, as the squeeze for names on the US domain has become a growing problem for new users.

Originally Posted by nffc

Shame they've lost a lot of face by charging for POP3 then.

Originally Posted by Paul

Since a lot of the spamming is through the pop access MS is charging for it so that they have the necessary details to trace, prosecute and stop the people that are inundating a lot of people with spam.... and it also makes them revenue ;)