Microsoft is finally saying goodbye to its popular web mail service Hotmail. Microsoft has revamped its webmail service Hotmail to Outlook.com. Microsoft claimed that the new Outlook.com is a modern e-mail designed for the next billion mailboxes.
To the reader’s surprise, outlook.com has seen more than 1 million people sign ups in just a few hours. On the other hand, Google remains at the top shot with 425 million users followed by Hotmail, which has approximately over 350 million at the last count.
Let’s check out some significant things about Microsoft’s new email service and find out would it be possible for Microsoft to lure away users from Gmail with Outlook.com?
Outlook and Microsoft Exchange connectivity:
If a user is using e-mail server runs on Microsoft Exchange, then the new Outlook is a no-brainer. They will just go together like sugar and tea. Users need not to know how to connect these two services. Users just need to pop up Outlook, enter their e-mail address, and start using it. In simple words, it will cut down on IT involvement in client configuration and allows users to switch computers easily.
Chat through Facebook:
To spice it up for amazing user’s experience, Outlook.com cleans up the inbox interface and integrate the e-mail client with a range of social networking features. It allows users to view status updates and the content from Facebook, Google, Twitter, and LinkedIn, instead of the standard e-mail inbox.
Storage:
Microsoft is offering 7GB of complimentary SkyDrive storage free to anyone creating an Outlook.com email account.
Amazing folder management:
To help dealing efficiently with the overflow of newsletters and other social media updates in users' Inboxes, Microsoft’s new email service automatically detects those mass messages and puts them in separate folders. Moreover, it offers an option to customize the process to sort mails, create their own categories as per their own choices and parameters.
Security:
Microsoft has claimed that it won't show any ads on Outlook.com tailored to content of emails and offer full proof security of mail content. This is something for which its arch-rival Google is often criticized for. As far as revenue generation is concerned, the Redmond giant is planning to generate revenue from text ads on Outlook.com. it is worth noticing that the ads will only appear in the inbox, not once an email is opened.
Integration with other devices and applications:
Another intuitive feature that Outlook.com is claiming is the synchronization with other devices and applications. Users can easily synchronize it with any sort of PDA or smartphone. Even third party add-on applications for devices like BlackBerry or various Windows Mobile models manage to be connected to Outlook.
Hotmail users:
For the time being, all the users with accounts at Hotmail or Microsoft Live users can log into Outlook.com using their existing ids and they can continue to send/receive email from their @hotmail.com or @msn.com or @live.com address. The email address, password, contacts, old emails and rules will remain unchanged for Hotmail users who upgrade to the new Outlook mail.
However, the new Outlook.com service is in preview phase, which means there are chances that more features are likely to be added before the final version is fully launched. So, stay tuned to get more information on this.
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