Microsoft launches Outlook.com, a new personal mail service

zigzag3143 · Jul 31, 2012

Microsoft has launched a preview of a new modern personal mail service. The new service offers a faster, cleaner and a more fluid user interface, sure to blow you away. Its interactive design makes it easy to use on a desktop, phone or tablet.

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/microsoft-launches-outlook-com-personal-mail-service

JMH · Jul 31, 2012

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.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19067634

Corrine · Jul 31, 2012

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.

Corrine · Jul 31, 2012

I was expecting to find information on the Windows Team Blog or Windows Live Blog, but no, it is in connected to Office!

Videos and screen images accompany the introduction at Outlook Blog - Introducing Outlook.com - Modern Email for the Next Billion Mailboxes

Corrine · Jul 31, 2012

Richard Hay has a nice collection of links to articles about the new Outlook.com at Microsoft Outlook.com Info and Reviews From Around The Web — WindowsObserver.com.

JMH · Aug 1, 2012

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.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/01/outlook_address_gold_rush/

JMH · Aug 2, 2012

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

http://betanews.com/2012/08/01/outl...n=Feed+-+bn+-+Betanews+Full+Content+Feed+-+BN

zigzag3143 · Aug 2, 2012

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.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9229875/Outlook.com_snares_1M_sign_ups_in_first_6_hours

Corrine · Aug 2, 2012

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.

JMH · Aug 2, 2012

[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."

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.

http://www.neowin.net/news/microsof...&utm_campaign=Feed:+neowin-main+(Neowin+News)

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