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.'"

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Outlook.com is MS's latest Ad platform!

[dehole]

I notice that MS is using the success they've had with advertising on XBOX to transform their other projects into similiar Ad platforms. That is why the Metro interface looks like the XBox dashboard, so that it will be easier to slip advertisements in it. Outlook.com will be no different.

Microsoft Mess

[rodrigoandrade]

myname@passport.com
myname@hotmail.com
myname@live.com
myname@outlook.com

I now have 4 Microsoft e-mail/IM IDs that basically do the same thing but don't talk to each other unless I manually merge them, which doesn't always work.

Thanks a lot Gates and Ballmer... and then you wonder why Page and Brin ate your lunch.

Re:Fantastic first impressions

[flappinbooger]

And of course it's your honest opinion, you were most likely paid for this.

Seriously, just get out.

How far we have come where the marketing campaign for a new product of this scale involves paying someone a living wage to "go out to websites like slashdot and pretend to be a real person who is excited about this new project."

Good grief. FacePalm.

There are shills everywhere though... http://plasticmacca.blogspot.com/2012/04/confessions-of-ex-internet-shill.html

A google search will reveal many others. This is big business??!??!? I wonder if I could be a paid shill... it would have to be for something I actually liked though. Meh.