Introducing Outlook.com - Modern Email for the Next Billion Mailboxes • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by dlikhten » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 5:17 PM UTC

"Your password can't be longer than 16 characters."

Well, it failed my test. Sorry. I never trust my emails to small hard to remember passwords. I rather trust them to very large easy to remember/type passwords. Like horses-functional-pickles

Also their capcha, I cannot figure out it, i won't spend more than 2 minutes on capcha

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

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Post by rickmb » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 5:18 PM UTC

We 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.

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

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Post by codegeek » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 5:19 PM UTC

Few posts are bashing Outlook in general but I will take it anyday over the biggest piece of shit we have at work: Lotus Notes. It is one of my biggest pain points at work.

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

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Post by forgotusername » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 5:20 PM UTC

peterbe wrote: post #35

What. An. Awesome. Video!! I wish I could (afford to) make videos like that.

Pretty sweet job considering it's advertising an e-mail app, although I was somewhat disappointed by the absence of unicorns.

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

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Post by hybrid11 » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 5:20 PM UTC

I like the new integration with the social networks, and the UI theme. However, I think the UI could benefit from more spacing between items, as it feels very cluttered.

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

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Post by maratd » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 5:21 PM UTC

yaix wrote: post #51

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…

> But, I guess, there is no way around it

There's a ton of ways you can specify your own CSS for a website, depending on what browser you're using.

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

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Post by blaines » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 5:21 PM UTC

I just signed up and the first thing I see is a bar of bing ads selling me $500 TVs or something. On my gmail (I just checked) I don't even see an ad (does web clip count?). You'd think a billion dollar tech company can afford not to force product on me.

The second thing I see is, wow, this looks really nice.

But, that was the second thing, first I felt like I was at Best Buy. I don't have a TV and I don't even want a TV, go away!

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

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Post by manojlds » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 5:21 PM UTC

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

Did you miss that it is still a preview?

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

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Post by knz » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 5:22 PM UTC

yoblin wrote: post #4

Signup captcha appears to be case sensitive (or something??). After try number 6 I give up. Nice work, Microsoft.

I'm pretty sure that it's because the username is already taken and the error message isn't showing up correctly on the page. They had me excited when I thought I could get my first initial and last name (both common names) as an email address.

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

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Post by waterlesscloud » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 5:22 PM UTC

blaines wrote: post #77

I just signed up and the first thing I see is a bar of bing ads selling me $500 TVs or something. On my gmail (I just checked) I don't even see an ad (does web clip count?). You'd think a billion dollar tech company can afford not to force product on me. The second thing I see is, wow, this looks really nice. But, that was the second thing, first I felt like I was at Best Buy. I don't have a TV and I don't even want…

I see at least two ads on my gmail homepage at all times. One line above the inbox, one below.

When I'm in an email, there will be one to several contextual ads (sometimes hilariously mistargeted) on the right.

Do you not see these?