Microsoft Unveils Outlook.com, Hotmail's Successor 368
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 is MS's latest Ad platform! (Score:5, Interesting)
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.
Better spam filtering? (Score:4, Interesting)
Hotmail's spam filtering is without a doubt the worst on the web. Obvious spam ends up in my Inbox, and legitimate mail ends up in the spam.
What's worse though is when it gets fooled into thinking that the email is part of a mailing list I've subscribed to and displays all the images automatically, making the spammer aware that my email address is valid.
Re:Fantastic first impressions (Score:3, Interesting)
You assume it was Redmond with the post, it could very well be a competitor reverse astroturfing.
Microsoft doesn't give two shits about slashdot, nor does any other tech company.
Re:Ads? (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Fantastic first impressions (Score:3, Interesting)
I work for one of the world's largest software vendors (not MS), and I know our PR/PM/Marketing folks do indeed care about Slashdot. They don't lose a great deal of sleep over it, true, but they are interested in what's said here about our products.
(And no, I don't work for any of those divisions--I'm in development/support.)
Microsoft Mess (Score:5, Interesting)
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 (Score:5, Interesting)
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 [blogspot.com]
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.
Re:Fantastic first impressions (Score:4, Interesting)
LIVE (Score:2, Interesting)
It is just "live" email with a new front end, and domain name. :-/ Meh
https://blu002.mail.live.com/default.aspx [live.com]
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