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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 robomartin »

Encosia wrote: post #152
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.

Here are my notes on that (I'm running Vista 64 Ultimate):

RUNNING MULTIPLE INSTANCES OF OUTLOOK

Download and install "ExtraOutlook.exe" from:

http://www.hammerofgod.com/download/ExtraOutlook.zip

Copy the executable to the folder where outlook lives. In the current case that means:

  C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12\
Create a profile for each separate instance of Outlook we want to run:

To create and manage profiles in Vista 64 go to

  Control Panel > View 32-bit Control Panel Items > Mail > Show Profiles
Create or modify the Outlook shortcut on the desktop to access the desired profile:

Profile 1:

  "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12\ExtraOutlook.exe" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12\OUTLOOK.EXE" /profile "Profile 1"
Make a duplicate copy and then...

Profile 2:

  "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12\ExtraOutlook.exe" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12\OUTLOOK.EXE" /profile "Profile 2"
Now two instances of Outlook can be opened and each is independently accessing the corresponding profile's data.

I go through the extra effort of assigning a different icon to each account and placing them on the quick-launch toolbar. I've been doing this for about two years and it works great. No issues whatsoever.

I can't believe MS doesn't implement MDI in Outlook so that one can do this using tabs and a single instance.

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

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Post by hobbyist »

jimmyjazz14 wrote: post #30

Just tried it out and from my initial experience gotta say this isn't bad. The UI feels pretty clean and easy to read (which I always found to be an issue with gmails web interface). Doesn't look like you can use IMAP with it though so I doubt I will use it for my main email address anytime soon.

For me it was kick ass. Really loved the feel of it.

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

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Post by Metrop0218 »

masonhensley wrote: post #58
saurik wrote: post #29

Microsoft really doesn't care about branding: once I logged in to my new @outlook.com Inbox using Outlook.com, I was redirected to live.com where I had a single message pre-sent to me from the "Hotmail Team" welcoming me to Microsoft Live Hotmail.

Outlook's url seems to be on the live.com domain... confusing at best. Let's make a comparison of url's from the "home" view: New Outlook (wtf): https://bay002.mail.live.com/default.aspx Gmail (better, could be cleaner): https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox

Does the URL really matter that much? I agree it's not unimportant, but I don't think it's a big deal. The program itself is much more important

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

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Post by jewel »

2arrs2ells wrote: post #102
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.

If you're OK with having separate windows, you can use a different profile for each one. Chrome handles this much better than firefox. For example, I silo my facebook browsing with:

chrome --app=https://facebook.com --user-data-dir=/home/jewel/.profiles/facebook

The other thing I do is use a different google account for each of their services, so a policy violation in one won't shut off the service in another. For example, I have calendar@mydomain.com for google calendar, plus@mydomain.com for google plus, youtube@mydomain.com for youtube.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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

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Post by laconian »

manojlds wrote: post #87
laconian wrote: post #49

Besides the Metro thing, what's so modern/different about this versus Hotmail?

The integration with other services like Facebook, Twitter, I believe?

Can't it be Hotmail v2? There looks to be vestiges of Hotmail/Live Mail everywhere. So, a better question is: is this just added features and a reskinning on top of Hotmail?
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