Seems a lot nicer than the dumb old Outlook Web Access I have to use for work.
Introducing Outlook.com - Modern Email for the Next Billion Mailboxes
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#42"Your password can't be longer than 16 characters." really?
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#43Signup captcha appears to be case sensitive (or something??). After try number 6 I give up. Nice work, Microsoft.
So I go to register at Outlook.com... 1. Enter details with a short, simple email address. Submit the form; 2. Sign up fails. I provided an alternative email address but not a phone number; apparently both are required for password recovery (why?), despite there being no indication both fields are required. Grudgingly give up phone number and try again; 3. Sign up fails. Apparently my phone number isn't valid, and I…
They don't allow the password to have more than 16 characters as well.
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#44Microsoft 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.
hm... that's interesting because I got an email subjected "Welcome to the Outlook.com preview"
are you sure you're using the new outlook.com account and not an old hotmail/live one? if you have a password manager with autologin you might have gotten signed into a wrong account
Re: Introducing Outlook.com - Modern Email for the Next Billion Mailboxes
#45Captcha problems aside, it actually looks pretty slick.
It's nice to be able to grab sync@outlook.com too.
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#46The reason Outlook is the world's most used mail client is because people are often forced to use it to access their company email. While anecdotal, I don't know a single person that uses outlook because they choose to. However, hopefully, outlook.com can introduce some innovation in the space, although, I'm skeptical as I am with most Microsoft 'innovation.'
I like outlook because to me usability and readability is better than Gmail.
Re: Introducing Outlook.com - Modern Email for the Next Billion Mailboxes
#47The reason Outlook is the world's most used mail client is because people are often forced to use it to access their company email. While anecdotal, I don't know a single person that uses outlook because they choose to. However, hopefully, outlook.com can introduce some innovation in the space, although, I'm skeptical as I am with most Microsoft 'innovation.'
Outlook, like all of office, is the default choice of pretty much anyone in a non-tech office setting. These programs aren't just "chosen", they are expected.
The same way having a desk is expected.
Re: Introducing Outlook.com - Modern Email for the Next Billion Mailboxes
#48How is this innovative or modern? They don't even sprite their icons. Microsoft: don't waste my time.
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#49Besides the Metro thing, what's so modern/different about this versus Hotmail?
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#50Google is asleep at the wheel. This makes them look bad. Gmail blew the doors off every other webmail client when it launched 5 years ago but it's time for a rewrite. The fact that they used Gmail mobile as their "Gmail Offline" product in Chrome tells me that the current client can't be modernized. I only hope that is what the Sparrow guys are going to be working on, because Microsoft isn't the company you would expect to be leading in HTML5 innovation.