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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 yaix »

Nice UI, very light and simple, seems to be running fast even on my netbook. I guess I will start to use my 15 year old hotmail account again, good to finally have an alternative to Gmail.

Only one thing: Microsoft, I know its really chiq and en-vogue nowadays to have some element with position:fixed; on every page, but please: don't!

There is no reason whatsoever why I would want to see all the time the titlebar. I mean, why would I want to see it? I know I am using Outlook! I know who I am! And it's not very often that I want to access the settings!

But, I guess, there is no way around it, position:fixed; is just soooo "modern".

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

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Post by zacharypinter »

briandear wrote: post #5

The 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.'

It'd be nicer if Outlook.com acted as an Exchange client (not just an Exchange ActiveSync server). From the post, it looks like they're recommending people forward their email to a new @live.com email address. Bleh.

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

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Post by saurik »

kooshball wrote: post #44
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.

hm... that's interesting because I got an email subjected "Welcome to the Outlook.com preview" http://i.imgur.com/UNhny.png 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

I am not even certain I know my Hotmail password: I have not logged into that account in many years, and certainly not from my iPhone (which is where I just created that account).

Yeah, verified: here is a copy/paste from the message.

    From: Hotmail Team 
    To: 
    Subject: Getting started with Hotmail
    Date: Tue 7/31/12 9:51 AM

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

#55

Post by kaelspencer »

esharef wrote: post #39
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.

I sort of disagree. The UI is clean but things aren't where you expect them to be and it makes it confusing. For instance, I didn't know where to put the subject when I was sending my first email -- it's huge but it's weirdly placed and unintuitive. I also couldn't find the Send button at first because it's on the Nav bar -- not where I expected. I also agree with the post below re: branding. I went to "Help" to see…

I noticed that about the subject. It doesn't stand out. I get the same feeling from the Mail app for Windows 8. About halfway through this article there is a screenshot of a message being composed. The subject there seems equally hidden.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/06/14/building-the-m...

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

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Post by manojlds »

esharef wrote: post #39
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.

I sort of disagree. The UI is clean but things aren't where you expect them to be and it makes it confusing. For instance, I didn't know where to put the subject when I was sending my first email -- it's huge but it's weirdly placed and unintuitive. I also couldn't find the Send button at first because it's on the Nav bar -- not where I expected. I also agree with the post below re: branding. I went to "Help" to see…

Yes, things aren't where you would expect, but it quickly grows on you. It sure did on me. Sent 5 emails already ( just to my accounts :) and liking the UI

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

#58

Post by masonhensley »

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

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

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Post by mc32 »

stove wrote: post #6

The promo video heralds it as email without 'creepy ads', but I signed up and without doing anything it displays 5 ads from restaurants in my town.

In my old account accessed via outlook.com, I see no ads. In a new account I just created I see ads from Restaurant.com. Not sure what gives.
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