Windows Live Hotmail provides the best spam protection

This is the conclusion of the analytical firm Cascade Insights. According to their report, Windows Live Hotmail is slightly ahead of GMail by this parameter. Yahoo Mail is on the third place but it's far behind the leaders. The rest of the Email-services are far-far behind. We believe this report because the guys from the Windows Live team are fanatically enhancing Hotmail's anti-spam during the last couple of years. Almost every month the Windows Live blog reports that they have reduced the SITI (spam in the inbox) by X%. Moreover, except the anti-spam filters, Hotmail developers recently added some other features to save user's attention. First, (like in GMail) they made the flagged messages displaying at the top of the list (video above). Second, they added categories (video below).



Third, they created the new tool Sweep, which allows to clean your inbox by different parameters. For example, you can move all messages older than a certain date to another folder. These clean-ups can be also scheduled.



In addition, Hotmail developers found another way to save attention - filtering Spam folder. The fact is that you still have to open this folder to control if any good message is filtered. Now, if Hotmail is fully convinced that message is spam, it doesn't go even to the Spam folder, but goes directly into Trash.

Given the fact that Hotmail (like GMail) can be used with your own domain, this service (along with SkyDrive office applications) is becoming a stronger competitor to Google Apps.

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