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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 archangel_one »

danielweber wrote: post #133
2arrs2ells wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

How does this work? If I sign out in one tab, it signs me out in another tab, on Google Chrome. Just tested it.

I click on my account picture in the top right, then click on "Add account" and log into the other one. Presto, two accounts.

Disclaimer: I am about 99% certain this is not some weird internal Google feature (not on the gmail team, don't worry), but it's also been > 1 week since I had to go through this performance so I may have forgotten some detail.

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

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Post by Encosia »

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…

Could you point me toward that multiple instance tweak? That's something I've wanted for a while.

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

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Post by epistasis »

dlikhten wrote: post #71

"Your password can't be longer than 16 characters." Well, it failed my test. Sorry. I never trust my emails to small hard to remember passwords. I rather trust them to very large easy to remember/type passwords. Like horses-functional-pickles Also their capcha, I cannot figure out it, i won't spend more than 2 minutes on capcha

This threw me off as well. I thought Microsoft was supposed to be security conscious, but putting in small, arbitrary limits in places where they don't belong is not reassuring in the least.

They also make it insanely difficult to use a password manager, as the login page URL redirects from outlook.com to some randomness that's 205 characters long.

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

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Post by hrktb »

dlikhten wrote: post #71

"Your password can't be longer than 16 characters." Well, it failed my test. Sorry. I never trust my emails to small hard to remember passwords. I rather trust them to very large easy to remember/type passwords. Like horses-functional-pickles Also their capcha, I cannot figure out it, i won't spend more than 2 minutes on capcha

Passwords can't contain some set of characters either, including spaces. Just why....

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

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Post by kmfrk »

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.

You needn't look any farther than Hotmail to grow wary of the merits of their new service.

And there's the whole Skype brouhaha.

Microsoft have an edge over Google in that they aren't perceived to be as morally bankrupt, when it comes to privacy and protecting their users (because they earn their money elsewhere), but with the Skype criticism, that may be subject to change. It's a nice flank of attack to use against Google, though, and the video ad in the submission hits all the right notes.

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

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Post by olav »

Does the new outlook.com support tags in addition to hierarchical folders? This is what I love about GMail. Plus, I generally hate the way the MS WYSIWYG editor has a live of its own and makes quoting of passages from received emails into multi-font nightmares.

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

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Post by b3b0p »

Initial impressions are positive. It looks feature wise (space, the other Office apps), that's comparable to Gmail for many people. I think I'll play around with it to see if it sticks. It's nice to see some competition and MSFT stepping up and improving this. Props.

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

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Post by olav »

Does the new outlook.com support tags in addition to hierarchical folders? This is what I love about GMail. Plus, I generally hate the way the MS WYSIWYG editor has a live of its own and makes quoting of passages from received emails into multi-font nightmares.

-- Olav

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

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Post by gddr »

mtgx wrote: post #135
robomartin wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gmail might warrant a second look. I have not touched it in more than two years. Yahoo Mail is good enough for me to pay for their enhanced service, Google would have to offer something better.

The free Gmail is better than Yahoo's paid service, though.

As a long-time Yahoo mail user, I'd say basically any email service is better than Yahoo Mail, at least if we're talking about their webmail interfaces.

(Protip: http://us.mc598.mail.yahoo.com/mc/launch)

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