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

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

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Post by mladenkovacevic »

nell wrote: post #8

Its definitely faster than the gmail interface.

I'm sorry have to disagree with this. Just signed up for a fresh, empty outlook account and every time I click on anything there is a noticeable 0.5-1 second lag not including the little slidey animations (I'll admit I AM on a rather ancient computer here at work). But at the same time I have over a gig of e-mail in my Gmail and almost every action is nearly desktop-fast (the speed with which emails come up after doing a search is faster than a file-search on windows)

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

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Post by 2arrs2ells »

robomartin wrote: post #66

I've been using Outlook by choice, well, forever. I won't bother listing all the reasons for this. It's powerful and it works well. And, if you are a programmer, you can go to town writing your own customizations with VBA. I use Yahoo Mail online for most of my personal stuff. Out of all the online email offerings out there I have found it to be the most "polished" (if I can use that term) and outlook-like. I tried G…

Gmail allows you to sign in to multiple accounts at the same time (in different tabs).

I have two pinned tabs always open in Chrome - one for personal, one for business emails. Works incredibly well for me.

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

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Post by MiguelHudnandez »

yaix wrote: post #51

Nice UI, very light and simple, seems to be running fast even on my netbook. I guess I will start to use my 15 year old hotmail account again, good to finally have an alternative to Gmail. Only one thing: Microsoft, I know its really chiq and en-vogue nowadays to have some element with position:fixed; on every page, but please: don't! There is no reason whatsoever why I would want to see all the time the titlebar. I…

I saw in the video that the "send" button was in the Title bar [1], so I suppose it's important that it be fixed on the screen.

[1] at 55 seconds in the video. This link starts a couple seconds before that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDI6Itn7soQ#t=53

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

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Post by ceejayoz »

I logged in with my Microsoft account, which uses my work e-mail as the e-mail address. It happily presented me webmail for it.

That's going to confuse non-technical users. There's no indication that any replies are going to go right where it's supposed to, Google Apps...

Plus, when attempting to send, I get a captcha. Filling it out (correctly) gives me a "too many attempts" warning.

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

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Post by ok_craig »

robomartin wrote: post #66

I've been using Outlook by choice, well, forever. I won't bother listing all the reasons for this. It's powerful and it works well. And, if you are a programmer, you can go to town writing your own customizations with VBA. I use Yahoo Mail online for most of my personal stuff. Out of all the online email offerings out there I have found it to be the most "polished" (if I can use that term) and outlook-like. I tried G…

I'm pretty sure with Google you can link up to 10 accounts, and you can have as many Gmail windows open as you want for various accounts that are linked. So if you want five different Gmail tabs open at the same time, just link the accounts behind them and it's possible. I personally have two independent Gmail accounts open at all times.

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

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Post by blaines »

icegreentea wrote: post #90
blaines wrote: post #77

I just signed up and the first thing I see is a bar of bing ads selling me $500 TVs or something. On my gmail (I just checked) I don't even see an ad (does web clip count?). You'd think a billion dollar tech company can afford not to force product on me. The second thing I see is, wow, this looks really nice. But, that was the second thing, first I felt like I was at Best Buy. I don't have a TV and I don't even want…

That's because gmail ads typically are not on the mainpage, but they are there when you read individual emails (in the side bar).

Hm I see... Here's some screenshots of the ads...

http://cl.ly/image/3n1G3l1F1y2j

http://cl.ly/image/3j2x2Y3j0L1l

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

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Post by ivanbernat »

sintaks wrote: post #93

Curious video. While sketching out Google's Gmail UI, they place a sticky over the advertisement area that says, "Creepy ads." Yet what do I see upon logging in to Outlook.com? Crappy ads. I'll take creepy (relevant) over crappy, thanks.

So you'll rather have Google read every email and every attachment within your inbox, track you around the web, YouTube etc to give you "relevant" ads - rather just a few ads for other MS products?

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

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Post by blhack »

rickmb wrote: post #72

We haven't instantly forgotten how Microsoft handles Skydrive, have we?: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4265086 I think I'll pass on putting my email through their systems. Although I have to admit this looks way better than GMail. I hope this inspires Google to do something about their interface design.

And I'm going to hope and pray that google stops screwing with their interface design.

Gmail was perfect.

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