Using Windows Live Hotmail, searching the page for "filter" fails, even though that's what you suggest on your site (see article: How to create custom email filters in MSN Hotmail). Your suggestion is not correct, do you have an update?

I've been running in Hotmail for a long time, but just recently saw a friend log in and was amazed to see that he has a three-pane view, with a preview of the message on the same page as the list of incoming messages! I want! How do I switch?

As far as I know, there's a big problem with duplicate content in the search engines, so I am paranoid about my dynamically generated content and want to use either a "robots.txt" file or a "robots.txt meta exclusion" to ensure that search engines don't see my content again and again. How do I do that?

I know that Yahoo and Google's Gmail are probably more trendy, but I'm interested in getting an MSN Hotmail account. How do I do that and what should I consider when I'm signing up?