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Outlook’s new web client launched yesterday, and it’s pretty goddamn awesome. But many of us have invested years into Gmail and its many intricacies (or maybe Yahoo! or maybe Exchange!), which makes switching over all the more difficult. If you’re a browser-based email fiend, will you switch over? If not, what will it take to make you ditch your current mail service?
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“Outlook’s new web client launched yesterday, and it’s pretty goddamn awesome”
Disagree. It looks like a site being hurtled back decades. Sure it has functionality but I would rather it looked nice and did sod all.
As I said in another thread. Got my Outlook, switched back to Hotmail. I know at some point the day will come when I’m dragged kicking and screaming to the new UI.
I haven’t tried the new hotmail for reasons that any of the email names I wanted had been taken. It looks like hotmail in that there are loads of spam emails, newsletters and circulars
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Either way, I am a little too entrenched in gmail and I use IMAP to sync to Thunderbird on my computers, so a change to a web interface isn’t going to set my world on fire. After all, there must be a limit to the changes you can make when a webpage shows you your email.
I tried, but its evil captcha won’t let me. (Actually it let me in once, then caused the chrome tab to lock up.)
The audio alternative version is just a random burbling sound – I can’t make out any words or characters.
It looks like I’m not the only one:
https://twitter.com/i/#!/search/outlook%20captcha?q=outlook+captcha
I have a gmail account for main email and a spam ymail account, why would I need another?
I do like the outlook interface but have no reason to have yet another account.
No IMAP
Crappy spam filter
Having to fill out a ridiculous CAPTCHA every 10 emails
No thanks.
have reserved my firstname.lastname outlook account. will play around with it for a couple of days. Probably won’t switch my primary (gmail) account but the ability to add gmail into the webmail itself looks good.
NO.
Not for me thanks! Last thing I need is another email address.
Although there seems to be a lot on here who have hurtled off to get an outlook.com email address. I guess it’s true that human beings will always gravitate towards new, “shiny” things.
Or people from Hotmail are upgrading to Outlook? Which will be a lot of people, as its the worlds most widely used webmail client. As they will still be able to stick with their old email address anyway.
Back on to the subject question, I have created an account and managed to get an address i like (one without numbers) so i may move, but ill have to play around a bit more.
Main reason i got the new outlook.com was to stop that awkward moment when someone goes “your on a gay dating website? thats your email right?”
Just signed up for an account, and while I’m very impressed with its flashiness, I just can’t see myself changing from Gmail anytime soon. I know I can port my account to Outlook, but being an Android user / so reliant on Google Apps, it’d take more than an (admittedly STUNNING) UI to change my heart.
Exactly my sentiment. It’d be like having an iPhone and not using iTunes…
Vista comes out.. Everyone moans at how overly graphic it is and how it ripped of apple, Win7, everyone moans how all the ribbon style programs mean you cant find anything you are looking for. New outlook, simple and easy and people still moan.. interesting.. .
i think its quite good really, fits in with win8 styles and i am sure you will be able to customise it a bit..
as Steve jobs always pushed, simplicity is the key and i think MS are starting to see that this rule holds true and they are changing their stage and putting better and simple to use products out there (finally) so that you dont need to be a computer nerd to use or find your way around it. its nice to see a new MS.
I went straight off and got my name. No idea why but I could so I did! When you go to edit your profile though it fires you straight back to the stinking old Hotmail and live interface. Clearly not finished product.
I made the switch, got my name, username, and linked them altogether with my old Hotmail account.
So far it has been working well for me, and seems pretty slick. It is working faster for me through Chrome than the old Hotmail interface so far.
The UI is great, and it seems like there is a lot it can ‘link’ with as I’ve already had prompts to connect it to Facebook and Twitter, but a bit too paranoid doing that, as to avoid contamination with excess stuffs/spam.
If you just sign into the outlook.com page with your hotmail account it takes you to the new view anyway…
I got the new outlook email anyway just in case at some point they try to combine them.
Currently I use hotmail for loads of things and gmail for friends and gchat.
Yes, my reliable old Hotmail account’s been auto-updated already. Very nice. Lovely integrated Messenger sidebar, too. Knew I was right to stick with Hotmail despite constant derision for the last decade.
Can disposable addressess be created? I’ve not had a chance to look yet.
I’m not switching, I see nothing wrong with Hotmail and no way am I going to insult my eyes by using something with Metro.