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Microsoft Unveils Outlook.com, Hotmail's Successor
New submitter faraway writes "Microsoft has just unveiled Outlook.com, the planned successor to Hotmail.com. It includes a lot of what you'd expect from email today, including storage (images, data), a calendar, integration with other Microsoft tools, and of course a clean UI. According to ZDNet, 'Outlook.com is integrated with Windows and Office, and can pull in Twitter, Facebook, Gmail and LinkedIn contacts. The new mail client has the Metro look and feel. And it is providing users with more granular control over which ads they see and where they see them.'"
Outlook.com rocks!! Switched from gmail and good riddance. gmail is the new spam mail account.
With tagging, who needs folders.
Not everyone is down on the semantic labeling concept. Some people like plain old folders. For example my girlfriend switched back instantly from the new Gmail to the old one for that very reason. Now she's stuck with the new Gmail and hates it. Both are available depending on your preference in Outlook.
This is complete nonsense. If you like the idea of folders, then treat labels like folders. There is even a button that looks like a... *shock* FOLDER, and when you click it, it allows you to "move" any selected emails to a folder (label). Then if you want to find all the emails that you filed in any particular folder (label) you click on the appropriate folder name (label name). It works EXACTLY like folders, but with the added benefit that if you wish, you can apply multiple labels to your emails, so that is just like copying an email to multiple folders, except you don't have to actually copy it and any replies or forwards for that email are all kept together instead of being copied individually all over the place.
If someone can't figure out that labels can be used exactly like folders, then they have no business using the series of tubes we call the interwebs.