Hotmail on the Taskbar

Hotmail just got even better when run on IE9. Today, Hotmail added email notifications to its pinned site that displays the number of new messages directly in the taskbar. It’s an easy way to keep an eye on new updates with a glance. Pin Hotmail to your taskbar to start seeing this in action!

Hotmail also gives you quick access to mail tasks from the jumplist. Right-click on the Hotmail icon to jump to a task like send mail:

Now when you pin Hotmail to the taskbar, you can use it like a native desktop application on Windows 7. With pinned sites, developers can add capabilities like notifications, jumplists and thumbnail toolbars to your Web sites too. See these MSDN articles and Test Drive demo for details:

• Introducing Pinned Sites in IE9
• Pinned Sites Developer Reference
• Four Pinned Sites Test Drive Demos

Check out many more useful (and addictive) pinned site experiences on beautyoftheweb.com and on the Internet Explorer Gallery.

If you’re running Windows 7 but not yet running IE9, upgrade now to get the most from your browsing experience.

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[Imperfect1]

This is the first IE9 news that I've been excited about, because I have wanted these Hotmail functions for a long time. Thanks for the post SGT Oddball!