Now that Microsoft's revamped and flashy free e-mail service is drawing the spotlight, rivals Yahoo and Google have a clear reason to update their e-mail services. full story ![]()

In 2004, when Google introduced Gmail, it wasn’t instantly obvious to everyone why the search engine phenom would want to get into the e-mail business. Actually, given that the company made its announcement on April 1, some people wondered, momentarily, whether the news was a hoax. Even once it was clear that Gmail was the real deal, Google felt the need, in the Gmail FAQ,...
time.com (7 days ago)

Microsoft‘s Outlook.com email service has been growing steadily, with some users making the switch from Gmail in order to have a more unified Windows experience, among other reasons. One aspects of making the switch from Gmail to Outlook that caused issues for some users, however, was the inability to chat with Gmail contacts, a fairly ...
slashgear.com (6 days ago)

When Microsoft introduced a preview version of a fresh and inventive webmail service it called Outlook.com last August, it was pretty clear that it was telling the world that it intended to start winding down its venerable Hotmail sooner or later. Now it’s official. The company is announcing that Outlook.com is coming out of preview mode and is now officially available...
time.com (3 months and 1 day ago)

Microsoft has been pushing hard to let people know Outlook is still alive. This might come as a surprise to Gmail users, who long ago abandoned personal folders, desktop apps and maybe even the Blue Screen of Death (say, by switching to a Chromebook Pixel). Yet, even for the Gmail elite, there are still a few reasons to consider using Outlook.com. In fact, some of them might...
techradar.com (1 month ago)

In the never-ending turf war between tech titans like Microsoft and Google, a new service called Kloudless is trying to make some peace. The free extension for Google’s Chrome browser allows you to send e-mail attachments directly to online storage services such as Google Drive, Dropbox and Box. It also lets you attach files directly from these services without downloading...
time.com (20 days ago)

The great Hotmail migration is over. Microsoft recently announced that Hotmail as we've known it for yours is gone baby gone, and all its users have been transitioned to Outlook.com, which now boasts more than 400 million users worldwide. In its heyday, Hotmail was the go-to email client over competing services such as Yahoo. That changed around 2005, when Hotmail fans...
pcworld.com (17 days ago)

Outlook.com is taking a major step to woo Gmail devotees by integrating Google Talk contacts into its webmail messenger service.
wired.com (7 days ago)
The days are numbered for Hotmail.Microsoft announced it will close the 16-year-old service — one of the original free, Web-based email services — and move users to the new Outlook (not to be confused with Microsoft’s corporate email product, which goes by the same name) by this summer.The move could leave as many as 360 million customers wondering if Outlook is the best...
standard.net (2 months and 27 days ago)
Microsoft is upgrading its new Outlook.com webmail service so that its users can communicate with Gmail users via instant messaging.(pcworld.com)
pcworld.com (6 days ago)

Microsoft is giving Gmail users another reason to switch to Outlook. It's added Google Chat support to Outlook.com.
abcnews.com (7 days ago)
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