Microsoft is so confident it has the Internet's best email service that it’s about spend at least $30 million to send its message across the US The barrage begins Tuesday when Microsoft's twist on email, Outlook.com.
Outlook.com is a free webmail service from Microsoft, introduced in July 2012 and officially launched in February 2013, as the replacement to Hotmail.
Longtime users of Hotmail, MSN and other Microsoft email services will start noticing a big change: When they sign in to check messages, they'll be sent to a new service called Outlook.com.
As part of the process, all users of Microsoft's Hotmail and other email services operating under different domains such as MSN.com will be automatically converted to Outlook.com by the summer, if they don't voluntarily switch before then. All the old messages, contacts and settings in the old inboxes will be exported to Outlook.com. Users will also be able to keep their old addresses.
Outlook.com features Microsoft's Metro design language, and closely mimics the interface of the Outlook desktop software. During the preview, new @outlook.com email addresses were made available to all users, and existing Hotmail users were able to opt into the Outlook.com interface.
Features of Microsoft's Outlook.com:
Share anything: Send just about anything in a single email without having to worry about file size limits. Outlook.com supports file sizes up to 300 MB each, and subject to available SkyDrive storage.Automate your inbox: Outlook.com comes with powerful tools to organize your inbox automatically.
Stay up-to-date: Have all your people in one automatically updated place, whether they’re from Outlook.com, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or Google.
Your stuff, everywhere: Get access to your most important information instantly and across multiple Windows 8 devices with an Outlook.com address.
Prioritize your privacy: Outlook.com does not scan your email for the purpose of serving you ads.
