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Microsoft begins migrating users away from Hotmail and towards Outlook

article published on 19 February, 2013

Earlier this week, Microsoft announced that its new web-based email service Outlook had moved out of beta. The service will replace Hotmail/Live, and the company has begun migrating users away from its existing services. Preview versions of Outlook.com went up six months ago and it appears that Microsoft has done sufficient testing. Microsoft will look to steal users back from Google's ... [ read the full article ]

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yellowsub
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_ 		19. February 2013 @ 11:24 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I switched over to outlook.com for about 5 minutes. That is the five minutes too long. It is flashier - literally they have all these adds that flash at you but add zero new functionality. Epic fail Microsoft!
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bobiroc
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_ 		19. February 2013 @ 20:18 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by yellowsub:
 I switched over to outlook.com for about 5 minutes. That is the five minutes too long. It is flashier - literally they have all these adds that flash at you but add zero new functionality. Epic fail Microsoft!
Funny, I see no "flashy" ads in my Outlook.com. There are ads over on the right side that if I hover over them an image appears related to that ad, but other than that I see no ads popping at me and the ads are not intrusive.

As far as functionality goes I like the clean simple layout and if they would add IMAP support I would use it for my primary mail portal.
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aldan
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_ 		19. February 2013 @ 23:31 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
no ads in mine either.like the cloud as well.no complaints here.
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punchxcore
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_ 		20. February 2013 @ 20:39 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Who even uses Hotmail anymore, anyways? I quit using Hotmail due to the amount of spam I would receive on there. I've been using Gmail for the past few years.
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rockjockey
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_ 		22. February 2013 @ 15:45 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I've been using Hotmail for 17 years and have had no problems

whatsoever.

I get about 1 email per month of spam. Just hoping Mickeysoft

doesn't screw things up with Outlook Live!
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ChappyTTV
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_ 		23. February 2013 @ 18:25 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I still prefer to run my own email client rather than use web based email. I have ported it to a Gmail account so if I'm away from my home computer or out of town, I can still access my email. I just LOVE my Eudora 7.1.0.9 way too much to ever rely solely on web email except for throw-away accounts.
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