Windows Live Hotmail has just been launched in Belgium and India. These two countries join the Netherlands, with more rollouts expected over the next few weeks. The UK and France are the most likely to see the launch of Windows Live Hotmail next as selected beta testers from these countries have been informed that Windows Live Hotmail is currently in its last phase of beta testing and that they are looking to launch the new and improved Windows Live Hotmail in the next few weeks/days… The United States launch of Windows Live Hotmail is not too far of either with a launch coming in around the second week of May.

And while there is no apparent change from the Windows Live Hotmail M10 build that launched only a few weeks ago, its nice to see the service lose its beta tags. And though there is still no sign of either the @live or @windowslive email accounts being available to register it’s clear that when Microsoft are ready they will let us register them domains once again, especially as the @live.nl signup page is still available.

On a second note it’s also worth noting that updates to Windows Live Spaces and Gallery are also expected shortly to coincide with the launch of Windows Live Hotmail.