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Introducing Outlook.com - Modern Email for the Next Billion Mailboxes

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Post by kaelspencer » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 4:03 PM UTC

Introducing Outlook.com - Modern Email for the Next Billion Mailboxes
blogs.office.com

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Post by matthewlyle » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 4:35 PM UTC

It says "Modern experience for modern browsers and devices.". Is that just an empty sentence or are they using a better engine? The paragraph after just talks about pixels and white space.

EDIT: More of the same, apparently: http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-outlook/archive/2012/07/...

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Post by jawns » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 4:35 PM UTC

So: Email integrated with social network feeds? That's kinda cool.

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Post by yoblin » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 4:38 PM UTC

Signup captcha appears to be case sensitive (or something??). After try number 6 I give up. Nice work, Microsoft.

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Post by briandear » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 4:38 PM UTC

The reason Outlook is the world's most used mail client is because people are often forced to use it to access their company email. While anecdotal, I don't know a single person that uses outlook because they choose to. However, hopefully, outlook.com can introduce some innovation in the space, although, I'm skeptical as I am with most Microsoft 'innovation.'

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Post by stove » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 4:39 PM UTC

The promo video heralds it as email without 'creepy ads', but I signed up and without doing anything it displays 5 ads from restaurants in my town.

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Post by yesimahuman » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 4:40 PM UTC

yoblin wrote: post #4

Signup captcha appears to be case sensitive (or something??). After try number 6 I give up. Nice work, Microsoft.

I came here to also complain about the CAPTCHA. I almost gave up after the 4th try but I really wanted to see what this was all about. I don't know what they are thinking with that monstrosity.

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Post by nell » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 4:41 PM UTC

Its definitely faster than the gmail interface.

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Post by saurik » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 4:41 PM UTC

stove wrote: post #6

The promo video heralds it as email without 'creepy ads', but I signed up and without doing anything it displays 5 ads from restaurants in my town.

It can pull that off without reading your mail, which has been Microsoft's primary marketing complaint re Gmail.

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Post by idm » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 4:43 PM UTC

I think it will be a hard fight for mindshare, but Microsoft brings a ton to the plate. The Skype play could really gain them some ground.

As I think about it, Office was sortof like the original mashup (but applied to the desktop space). When they started integrating everything into Office (including the OS and the web browser) it started falling apart.

What I see with outlook.com is another mashup concept, but this time it is a very natural fit: the web is basically meant for this sort of thing.

And another thing: I use Skype. I am typing this on a mac, but I do have that one MS-owned property installed (Skype). This could be a vector that MS uses towards greater mindshare.