Microsoft has made its new Outlook.com email service generally available, following six months of receiving and incorporating user feedback. The service is ready to scale to a billion people, the company said, and Hotmail users will be shifted over to form the core of that base. The preview attracted 60 million users who signed in at least several times a month via the Web, a client or a mobile device, the company said. Many of the new or upgraded tools on Outlook.com attack the overstuffed in-box problem.
I do not hate the new Outlook.com. But I am already tired of what Microsoft is calling the new look these days for anything and everything about Windows. The "look" formally known as "metro" seems out of place with anything but a Windows 8 device. Maybe that's what Microsoft wants so you can get used to it. As a Windows 7 user I am fine with how Windows 7 works, looks, functions and is designed.
IE10 gives Windows 7 users that same "metro" feeling with the scroll bar in IE10 being similar to what it is in Windows 8. For me I am in no hurry for Outlook.com, I am happy with Hotmail.com and will wait for Microsoft to force me to migrate to Outlook. I typically am not one to not embrace change. I have always been the first to adopt a new OS or a new browser. Many times even accepting a beta test. But frankly I have not been impressed with anything Microsoft has done of late. I do not like Windows 8, will pass on Office 2013 and Outlook.com can wait for all I care.
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Microsoft Shoots for New Outlook.com Users by Targeting Less
Posted by: Erika Morphy February 20, 2013 02:44 PMMicrosoft has made its new Outlook.com email service generally available, following six months of receiving and incorporating user feedback. The service is ready to scale to a billion people, the company said, and Hotmail users will be shifted over to form the core of that base. The preview attracted 60 million users who signed in at least several times a month via the Web, a client or a mobile device, the company said. Many of the new or upgraded tools on Outlook.com attack the overstuffed in-box problem.
IE10 gives Windows 7 users that same "metro" feeling with the scroll bar in IE10 being similar to what it is in Windows 8. For me I am in no hurry for Outlook.com, I am happy with Hotmail.com and will wait for Microsoft to force me to migrate to Outlook. I typically am not one to not embrace change. I have always been the first to adopt a new OS or a new browser. Many times even accepting a beta test. But frankly I have not been impressed with anything Microsoft has done of late. I do not like Windows 8, will pass on Office 2013 and Outlook.com can wait for all I care.