The interface is currently broken in Australia where a "ninemsn" logo in the top left corner has pushed the menu bar down to obscure the top of the menu and mail listing panes. Other than that - looks like a big improvement to Hotmail.
Introducing Outlook.com - Modern Email for the Next Billion Mailboxes
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#312I've surprised myself by actually liking it. A lot.
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#313Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was setting up my wife's account for youtube and accidentally put today's date in for her birthdate. I was immediately locked out and had to pay a fee to get her email back.
and share how much the fee was... ("accepting and verifying a credit card number in connection with a transaction" is one of the COPPA approved methods of verifying adulthood)
It's 30 cents: http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&a...
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#3141- Get excited.
2- Create account.
3- Provide alternate e-mail address for security during signup
4- Login to the site.
5- See that outlook.com found out your facebook profile picture using your alternate e-mail address and started using it in outlook.com
6- Get turned off immediately.
7- Close browser, to never ever login to outlook.com, ever again
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#315We 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.
Interesting. I've had issues with a me.com email — for seemingly no reason at all it will say I'm providing the incorrect password. Seems to happen every other week at random intervals.
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#316Earlier quoted context omitted.
And I'm going to hope and pray that google stops screwing with their interface design. Gmail was perfect.
>> Gmail was perfect. Comments about perfect technology keep popping up on hn. I would think that claiming any technology is "perfect" is a little self-defeating coming from a tech startup news site? The very core of what we all stand for here is advancing mankind (or making the world a better place) through whatever means we are capable (most often technology). Viewing existing technologies as "perfect" closes the m…
"Perfect", especially in terms of UI is extremely subjective. I personally prefer the new Gmail design.
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#317 Your password can't be longer than 16 characters.
... we provide an inbox with ... rock solid account protection
powered by your Microsoft account ...
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#318seem to be gmail with a flat template, with a bit of sparrow style.
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Not trying to be smug, but I bet you're younger than 30, if you can say that with a straight face.
Suppose we move 20 years forward. Are we going to see this type of comment regardless of what the company would be at that time? "No way, man! I bet you're younger than 50, if you... " Do you really think that ghosts from the past need to haunt people's minds for that long regardless of how the state of the world has changed? I perceive none of MS and Google as being protective of their users or respectful of said us…
I think your reasoning is flawed, to be honest. If a person (and let's pretend companies are people, just for now) does something amoral, it would take a lot of deliberate effort to rebuild trust in said person. Especially so if the deeds were done in a situation where the person was in power and that power has since dwindled. Of course, companies aren't people, but even then - The actual people who lead the company are, and those are the same people now as then. For comparison, I think mr. Gates has actually done his part to "repay" his debt to the world, but that's him personally - not something that reflects back on Microsoft.
In any case, the topic wasn't about which is fair or not, but rather about what the public image of Google vs. Microsoft is and I strongly disagree with your sentiment that Google generally appear more corrupt than Microsoft does. At least if we're talking the tech-savvy part of this worlds population.
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I think gmail is as close to a "mail as a service" as you can get. You can get your own domain pretty easily, and yes Google charges you for it. You can hook up plenty of 3rd party native clients to it - if you want, you never have to use the web interface at all (9x% of my gmail usage is from Mac and iOS native clients).
True, and I pay for it for blekko.com, but there was no amount of money I could give them that would let me have the old gmail interface back. That was sad for me.
I've been able to get most of the old gmail interface back by following Jason Crawford's recommendations:
http://jasoncrawford.org/2012/04/how-to-cope-with-the-gmail-...
The stuff I cared about anyway. I agree it is sad.