Microsoft's surprisingly good Hotmail replacement offers a lot of business-savvy features. But it stumbles on a major one. full story ![]()
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 28 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 (7 days ago)

I don't like Gmail...I love Gmail. But I'm not wild about using it from within my Web browser, as I find the interface, well, lacking. (Unattractive and unintuitive are two words that come to mind.) Sure, I can tolerate it if I have to, but I find that I work much better within the confines of a more traditional desktop mail program. For years that program was Outlook, but...
pcworld.com (3 months and 9 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 (8 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 (8 days ago)

Microsoft is giving Gmail users another reason to switch to Outlook. It's added Google Chat support to Outlook.com.
abcnews.com (8 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 2 days ago)

I have been using Gmail as my sole email client for years now, and I'm a big fan. But there's one key thing I need my email client to do that Gmail doesn't offer: Follow-ups. When I send an email, I often want to be reminded if the recipient hasn't replied within a few days, so I can resend my message or find out what happened. To me, this is absolutely crucial, which is...
pcworld.com (8 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 (19 days ago)

Gmail client Gmail Lite takes email out of your browser and brings it, with a twist, to your desktop. This Pokki-based app is incredibly lightweight. Gmail Lite's clean interface makes it easy to use Gmail on your desktop, provided all the Gmail features you need at the moment are supported.The best part of having Gmail on your desktop is the real-time notifications; these...
pcworld.com (2 months and 18 days ago)
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