Microsoft launches Outlook.com, a new personal mail service

Hotmail replaced by Outlook.com in Microsoft shake-up

Microsoft is overhauling its free webmail service, dropping the Hotmail name it has used since acquiring the product in 1998, and renaming it Outlook.com.

The revamped service will help sort messages as they arrive and allow users to make internet calls on Skype.

It said the move would help tackle the problem of "cluttered" inboxes.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19067634
 
Re: Hotmail replaced by Outlook.com in Microsoft shake-up

I don't really see any difference from the old product, other than it is very "Plain Jane" looking.
 
Outlook.com launch a gold rush for jokers, spammers


Microsoft's servers have been going bonkers processing account requests for its newly launched Outlook.com webmail service, but there's plenty of evidence to suggest that Redmond's Gmail competitor may be less of a breakout success than it would have us believe.

On Tuesday, just six hours after the service launched, the Outlook team took to Twitter to thank its many new subscribers, saying, "One million people have signed up for a new, modern email experience at Outlook.com. Thanks!"

Whether you accept that figure, however, seems to depend largely on how you define "people." If we assume it means "active users," it would be wise to take Microsoft's claims with a grain of salt.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/01/outlook_address_gold_rush/
 
Outlook is nice, but it's no Gmail [review]

Change doesn’t happen overnight at Microsoft, but when the Redmond, Wash.-based corporation simply announced the new Outlook mail service yesterday, it was a big surprise. But surprise attacks can prove advantageous, and six hours after the Outlook team announced the service via Twitter, a million people had signed up for it.

What You Get

Microsoft calls Outlook a “modern email experience” and naturally there is a need to find out if it’s better than before and how it compares to its arch rival, Gmail.

The new Outlook focuses on three main areas:


  • Cleaner interface
  • Social networking connections
  • Web apps
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http://betanews.com/2012/08/01/outl...n=Feed+-+bn+-+Betanews+Full+Content+Feed+-+BN
 
Outlook.com snares 1M sign-ups in first 6 hours

More than 1 million people had registered with the new Outlook.com email service on opening day, Microsoft said yesterday. The company announced the milestone in a tweet posted about six hours after Outlook.com went live. "One million people have signed up for a new, modern email experience [at Outlook.com]," the firm said Tuesday afternoon.
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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9229875/Outlook.com_snares_1M_sign_ups_in_first_6_hours
 
I have yet to figure out what is new with Outlook.com other than the future integration of Skype and the rather boring/Plain Jane interface. Sweep was added June, 2010 and the ability to add up to four POP3 accounts was added in June 2011.

Personally, it smells like marketing hype to me, with a rather large overtone of Mojave.
 
[h=1]Outlook.com users are "customers, not inventory"[/h]
Microsoft's newly launched Outlook.com email service has already generated a lot of interest from Internet users. The company has said that over 1 million people signed on to the service just six hours after it launched in beta form on Tuesday. One thing that makes Outlook.com different than Google's popular Gmail service is that Microsoft has promised, "Outlook is private—you’re in control of your data, and your personal conversations aren’t used for ads."

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This a big contrast to Google's approach who actually scans the emails that a person gets in his Gmail box and then generates ads based on those emails. So how will Microsoft make money from all those new Outlook.com users? Wired.com said it tried and failed to get any specifics from Microsoft on that topic but Microsoft could be using this as a loss-leader platform.
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http://www.neowin.net/news/microsof...&utm_campaign=Feed:+neowin-main+(Neowin+News)
 

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