Microsoft is renaming Outlook's Hotmail service as part of a reorganization to make its free email user-friendly.

Modified services will help users manage spam, organize messages as they arrive, and describe social networking links in a migration analysis that believe this is an effort to win customers for. Google Gmail.

Microsoft says email has become a "chore" for many users because their accounts have become overloaded with documents.

The new service automatically organizes messages into different areas to distinguish between an email from contacts, newsletters, package delivery announcements, social posts, and other senders. by the account holder.

"Many changes over the last eight years and we think it's time for a new look at email.

"We are offering you the first email server connected to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google and soon, Skype, to bring context and contact information to your email.

"In your Outlook.com inbox, your personal email comes alive with your friends' photos, recent status updates, and the tweets your friends have shared with you, the ability to chat and talk. Video calling - all backed up by constantly updating the contact list that is connected to your social network. "

Microsoft is currently offering the service as a preview for this time and has not released the official release date.

It will advise users to upgrade, but Hotmail subscribers can stick with the old system if they like.

Hotmail was launched by Microsoft in 1996 but it has not been updated for eight years.