For over a decade, Outlook was for me a synonym of bloated work email. And now the Outlook.com site is now the replacement of the venerable free email service Hotmail, also known as "Live Mail". It doesn't feel "enterprisey" enough for me. It's a simple UI, with feature parity with Hotmail, but with a few nice shortcuts.
Compared to the web interface of iCloud, which insist in mimicking the Mac's Mail program, and the visually spammy and ad-ridden Yahoo! Mail, I don't know why anybody would complain about the "new" Outlook email service. Even Gmail feels way too complicated to use for novice users and feels like it was made for people like me first.
So, it's free, it's easy to use, and you get a new shiny @outlook.com email address (quite frankly the old @hotmail.com started to feel unsophisticated to say the least). Mine's benad@outlook.com, which is still not as cool as benad@me.com, but way better than benad84@gmail.com. Does it show that I'm quite confident of the anti-spam capabilities of all those services?
Published on August 3, 2012 at 22:08 EDT
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