Microsoft has released a number of notable updates to its e-mail service following the launch of the “re-invented Windows Live Hotmail” a few months ago, and is planning another wave with their news roll out today. This one will transform Hotmail into more multi-functional and collaborative tool, as all of these extra ‘little’ features are predicted to be added to every supported account shortly.

“We believe that these features will benefit people using Hotmail with a more efficient email experience that saves time and is just more fun to use. During the rollout, we want everything to go smoothly as new features are added, so we will start by upgrading a small percentage of our accounts, and as the kinks are worked out, quickly roll the features out to everyone.”

Microsoft is adding more features and support to additional services as following:

1)A more convenient package tracking (supporting the U.S Postal Service, now FedEx, as well as certain support of DHL and USL) allowing relevant e-mails containing a tracking number to light up.

2) The ability to chat with users logged-in to Facebook alone via Hotmail.

3) An internationally enlarged 10GB limit for photo sharing via SkyDrive plus an increased 25mb e-mail attachment size.

4) An automatically clickable video embedding on all links from the recently added

Dailymotion and Justin.tv

5) The ability of create and organize folders within folders.

Putting a special emphasize on the addition of professional social tools to its ever-expanding Hotmail, it seems that Microsoft is still playing catch up with the Web 2.0 attitude, and break as much barriers among users as possible. This seems to be a very good move towards preserving and attracting a much greater number of users with the ever-nearing tomorrow.