Is this just a simplified Hotmail? It seems like mostly CSS tweaks. No?
Introducing Outlook.com - Modern Email for the Next Billion Mailboxes
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#272Just tried drag and drop attachments, and no joy. That's a deal breaker for me. Sorry msoft.
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#273Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a big Android/Google fan, I can't say they are exactly innocent when it comes to the sort of thing Microsoft was called out for with Skydrive. When Google+ first came out quite a lot of people lost their "Google lives" (including their gmail accounts they had been using for years) when Google banned them for being under 13 or using a pseudonym.
The under 13 thing, as has been discussed before, is due to COPPA. Google doesn't offer anything like hotmail's family account (where the child's account is managed by a proven parent's account), so if they find out that you're under 13, they have to close your account and they aren't allowed to warn you that they will do so (or let you go back and change your birthdate). As for the pseudonym thing, that never occurr…
No, they don't have to close the account, they choose to, rather than deal with the law's requirements.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_Pr...
> While children under 13 can legally give out personal information with their parents' permission, many websites altogether disallow underage children from using their services due to the amount of paperwork involved.
Re: Introducing Outlook.com - Modern Email for the Next Billion Mailboxes
#274wait a minute, no support for imap?
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#275I'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…
Even though it's no longer under development, I wonder if Thunderbird's default tabbed interface would meet your needs.
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#276The desktop Outlook application epitomizes everything I hate about enterprise software. I've been forced to use it by my last few employers, and outlook-induced frustration has been a frequent source of conversation among my colleagues.
If MS wants to start a new email service, the Outlook name is a sure guarantee that we won't want to use it.
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#277Earlier quoted context omitted.
And I'm going to hope and pray that google stops screwing with their interface design. Gmail was perfect.
Good luck with that. SAAS means you're vulnerable to vendor change with every pageload. Though there are getting to be tools which allow you to reverse-engineer sites and design them how you want, but this is subject to a lot of churn keeping up with the SAAS vendor. Still lovin' my mutt.
On the flipside, SAAS means you can augment the interface using browser plugins (user scripts, CSS, etc)!
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#278We 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.
I use my old mac.com and new me.com emails and it works beautifully. The iCloud mail interface as well as everything else about the experience is just great. Very, very little spam, lightning fast, no ads, integration with my iCal and therefore easily accessed from all of my devices. Gmail is good, but I find it's overrated.
IIRC, it's not free.
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#279Interesting to note that outlook.com considers foo.bar@outlook.com to be a different account to foobar@outlook.com, unlike gmail
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#280No POP/IMAP. No forwarding. No thsnks.