Users can place low-cost phone calls from a PC to any telephone number in the United States as well as many countries around the world. Users can engage in voice dialogue via their computers while sending instant messages simply by activating the Call Computer feature. Users can send instant messages with their mobile device to their buddies who are using MSN Mobile. MSN Hotmail users can use their Hotmail account name to sign into MSN Messenger, and users of MSN Messenger can use MSN Hotmail to send e-mail to friends who are offline. Along with that, they can see their buddy s status in their Hotmail Inbox or on the From line of the e-mail message.
Users can then click on the Buddy icon and immediately start an instant message.
With Microsoft Outlook Express 5, users can view their e-mail and the online status of their MSN Messenger contacts simultaneously from the same user interface. Consumers will receive notification, visible and audible, when they receive new e-mail through either MSN Hotmail or Microsoft Outlook Express 5. Users now have access to even more emoticons, icons that express thoughts or feelings, making it even more fun to share instant messages with others. Easily set online status. The ability to keep an existing e-mail address.