Outlook.com breaks the 25 million active user mark, releases an Android

But seriously: WTF. It sucks so badly, that badly needs to be redefined. OK, it's much better then msn/live mail was... and redefining badly is perhaps a bit too harsh. But it still sucks.

Did anybody see what it looks like? It is very clean. Boring even. And in chrome the screen is not even 100% height in the mail overview. (And sending mail from google mail ended up in junk, but that may have been bad luck).

I do like the new stuff MS is trying though. I really hope their metro stuff on desktop and mobile will cause some movement in the 'almost the same for many years now'-interfaces from other manufacturers. In that case I might benefit from their experiments as well.

Re: Outlook.com breaks the 25 million active user mark, releases an Android

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Post by xradionut » Wed, Nov 28, 2012, 11:30 AM UTC

The reason Outlook.com has 25 million users is that it's harvesting/transplanting users from the it's Hotmail user base.

Re: Outlook.com breaks the 25 million active user mark, releases an Android

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Post by angry-hacker » Wed, Nov 28, 2012, 11:46 AM UTC

ayi wrote: post #2

the android app is outsourced to a company and it's awful.

It looks more like a joke... this can't be real.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.outlook.Z7

Re: Outlook.com breaks the 25 million active user mark, releases an Android

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Post by hdra » Wed, Nov 28, 2012, 11:57 AM UTC

the outlook.com web app is nice, but the Android app is complete junk,, looks like something they just put together in few days.. makes me wonder why they even bother making it in the first place...

Re: Outlook.com breaks the 25 million active user mark, releases an Android

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Post by nodata » Wed, Nov 28, 2012, 12:04 PM UTC

Does the address book sync work in this version, or is it still broken like in their Hotmail app?

Re: Outlook.com breaks the 25 million active user mark, releases an Android

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Post by mhd » Wed, Nov 28, 2012, 12:15 PM UTC

I registered way back, and subscribed to two mailing lists to try it out. That exposed a major flaw to me: Conversation views are in reverse time order. Which is kinda okay if you're talking to an actual person and might just want to look up what you previously said, basically an extended version of (goshawful) top-quoting. It does break apart if you're trying to get into a new mailing list conversation where you have to read through 10 posts.

If it had an option of reversing that, it wouldn't actually be that bad. Not as good as gmail, but better than all the desktop-clones like gmx.com or yahoo.