It’s time to say goodbye to Hotmail, because Microsoft has relaunched it as Outlook.com, adding lots of new tools and a fresh design based on Windows 8 Metro. You can register to try the preview version now, and all your contacts, old emails, folders and filters will be carried over.
Perhaps the best new featre is the 7 GB of Skydrive storage for email attachments, so you won’t need to worry again about sending large files. Also impressive is Microsoft’s promise not to scan email content or attachments for targeted advertising, unlike Gmail.
And Outlook.com automatically categorises emails as they arrive, separating, for example, personal emails from newsletters.
Microsoft wants Outlook.com to be more of a social hub as you browse, so it shows photos from friends and messages from Facebook and Twitter. More usually, soon you’ll be able to make Skype calls within it. You can still use Hotmail for the time being, though eventually you’ll have to switch.
However, existing Hotmail email names in Outlook.com have not been reversed, so you must register yours if you want to use the same name. This means if you had john@hotmail.com, you won’t be guarateed john@outlook.com without re-registering it.
To read more information, visit the Outlook blog. We’ll take a closer look at Outlook.com in the coming days.
I love the new Outlook, The best feature is able to retrieve deleted e-mails, Will move to it soon
Gone is the cluttered layout of Hotmail. Good riddance.
So, Outlook appears to be trying to become a sort of Google+ setup? Is that what they’re saying?
I wish them the best of luck.
Do people still use hotmail ?
ya there interface is,now, clean fast and easy to use….moreover ad placement is better and doesn’t trouble email experience.
And as you mentioned this skydrive comb. is brilliant for big attachments
I luv new outlook, at first glance it’s simple, elegant and sexy.
Large Skydrive storage is a useful specification.
Well outlook’s interface is really cool. I also got an email id with my name
Outlook is very handy especially if you have multiple accounts on hotmail but I believe that few people are still using it.
This is the new information I get here. I am going to use this new mail service.
After i used new out look really very happy with new out look
Oh boy.. have to check my hotmail account now..
Played with it for a while and love the new simple but elegant interface. Looks to have potential but didn’t convince me to switch from Gmail just yet.
I will miss hotmail. That was my 1st email.
I never really liked hotmail’s interface and after checking out outlook.com’s, I can say it is definitely better than hotmail’s.
I was never a fan of Hotmail, but the Outlook features actually sound pretty interesting (like the 7GB storage) – I will have to check it out and maybe even sign up for an account
I had no idea Microsoft was relaunching Hotmail, so thanks for sharing!
I love the new Hotmail alias the OutLook, it has a unlimited storage and many more awesome features
Great stuff as always Jaspal – thanks for keeping an eye out for the rest of us!
Hopping over to Outlook.com now to grab my preferred account info and check out all the new features. Hotmail has become my catch all for spam, I only use it for newsletter signups and such as the interface is so bulky and cluttered. Maybe outlook.com is the answer to making it useful again.
The main plus point I like is new interface it’s definitely easy to use and eye pleasing.
thanks for the’s post
The new Outlook looking gorgeous, Now i moved from Gmail to Outlook
Just took a look at it and it’s pretty neat. What I don’t like is those Bing shopping ads on the right sidebar. Seeing all those prices there kinda distracts you from actually reading your mail.
Awesome… now its time to move from gmail to outlook
Impressive post.
Love the better concept of Microsoft.
Outlook is really very cool now
I agree, the new outlook are clean and beautiful. I wonder if it can compete with Gmail in the long run. IMO YES!
Thanks for sharing your Views Via this blog!!
I realy like the new look of hotmail..Thanks for thge post.
Outlook really has a better design compared to Hotmail/MSN but I still seem to prefer Gmail because I have got adapted to it. I did register few Outlook ids though.
Thanks for informing me about outlook, its looks good… i just registered and all is great..
Nice article.
this is amazing.I will surely register on it
I’ve never understood why Open Office does not incorporate an Outlook clone. It seem to me to be the one thing keeping it from really giving Microsoft a run for its money.
Tips for Anti-Aging
Impressive Update, I stay online 24*7 still was not knowing about this updates, because its like there are lots of things so we missed something.
It’s good , somehow they try to catch the competition , but i still believe that Microsoft should end IE and Bing services also .! both useless.
Still not so convinced of switching to Outlook from Gmail though i registered my account with all Microsoft email services like hotmail, live earlier. Duh !
I love new outlook Weldon Microsoft
The new clean and simple look (also present in Outlook.com) adopted by Microsoft gets a big like from me. I never liked the name “HOTmail” ; never sounded good for me …
I like the new look of Hotmail. It’s simply amazing.
How can I eliminate from right sidebar those distracting and screen-robbing bing ads? Often I can’t see the entire message /graphic.