A good bit, it turns out. Windows Live Hotmail now offers inbox-cleaning Sweep and filter functions, Exchange support, direct Office Web App tools, in-message slideshows and video, and more.

Folders. Microsoft’s version of folders goes a lot further than Gmail’s, though, with features called Sweep and Hotmail Highlights. Sweep lets you check a checkbox to automatically shuffle a ...

Microsoft is adding more granular spam-fighting and organization tools to Hotmail between now and the end of the year, officials said on October 3.