MS launches Outlook.com consumer email service (replacement for Hotmail)

[ODogg]

Re: MS launches Outlook.com consumer email service (replacement for Hotmail)

got it, thanks...but i see only hotmail and live as domains when i try to create a new address...

ok, if anyone has this issue, sign out, then go back to outlook.com, sign up as a new email account and then link your two emails together

[Altimus]

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Well you better get used to that unless you're a Mac/Linux user because that's exactly what Windows 8 and pretty much everything else MS releases for the next several years is going to look like.

I figured people would like the drag-n-drop and right-click interface in the web access. I don't think any other POP3/IMAP consumer service has that.

Don't remind me. I still have 8 running somewhere virtually on my PC at work.

The GUI is plain but clean so it gets the thumbs up from me.

[DaveDQ]

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It's clean but at what cost? I can see more messages on the screen with gmail, despite any ads and chat.

I really like the change, but just don't see a reason to switch.

I am looking forward to what the ecosystem looks like once 8 rolls out and have already upgraded my main PC at home, but I haven't changed my email in several years... and that was moving from my hotmail that I still have and just collects spam. Now I have several mailboxes streaming into my gmail account, all sorting nicely into appropriate tags, allowing for me to have 11k unread without losing my mind.

Outlook just looks like Gmail with some elements hidden and a blue bar across the top and the spacing sent to cozy.

My number one appeal to Outlook right now is I'm frustrated with Google starting and stopping things and then leaving other things untouched. One application I really like with Google is Google Voice. It works great with my phone and I use it for a spare number to give out when I don't want to give my main number. The problem to me is they've left it alone. Now I look at Igoogle being taken away and I wonder what's next for them. I question their decisions sometimes. They start so many things and leave them alone.

I'm just a little frustrated with how they go about things. I've had a gmail account for a while now. I like it. They do a lot of things right. No doubt.

[CaptainZombie]

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I hate how Outlook/Hotmail now since I joined the two is listing all my communication say with one person under one. Google did this and I hated it with a passion so one of the reasons why I left gmail. I know people like it, but not me. Anyway to have each email be it's own line item? I hope I'm explaining this correctly.

[ehh]

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Anyway to have each email be it's own line item? I hope I'm explaining this correctly.

Click on Arrange By and change it from Conversation to Date.

[CaptainZombie]

Re: MS launches Outlook.com consumer email service (replacement for Hotmail)

Click on Arrange By and change it from Conversation to Date.

Thank you ehh, that is much better.

[Burns11]

Re: MS launches Outlook.com consumer email service (replacement for Hotmail)

It's an option in gmail as well

[ODogg]

Re: MS launches Outlook.com consumer email service (replacement for Hotmail)

I hate how Outlook/Hotmail now since I joined the two is listing all my communication say with one person under one. Google did this and I hated it with a passion so one of the reasons why I left gmail. I know people like it, but not me. Anyway to have each email be it's own line item? I hope I'm explaining this correctly.

I don't like it either man, it's confusing to me

[Altimus]

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Anyone add their outlook.com account to Exchange ActiveSync? Or does it only work through the Hotmail app on the phone? I want to add it to my Exchange but it keeps giving me a permissions error. Tried googling this but there isn't much details in adding this new outlook.com to Exchange and MS only provides a faq on the Hotmail app.

[ehh]

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I read somewhere that it will work with Active Sync, which was the only reason I even signed up for an account. Without Active Sync...meh.

I'm guessing they just have Active Sync disabled for now since it's technically still in the beta or whatever phase.

[Altimus]

Figured as much, ActiveSync was a big point for me as well.

[fishepa]

Signed up a couple of weeks ago with my wife's name and daughters so they can have their names for email addresses. Haven't used it yet though. Good to have another option.


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[Altimus]

Re: MS launches Outlook.com consumer email service (replacement for Hotmail)

Alright, got ActiveSync finally working. The permissions error must have been an odd occurrence.

Anyone interested, here are the settings:

Email - full email including the domain (@outlook.com)
Username - full email including the domain (@outlook.com)
Password -
Server - m.hotmail.com
Domain - blank
SSL - checked

[ehh]

Re: MS launches Outlook.com consumer email service (replacement for Hotmail)

Server - m.hotmail.com

Leave it to these knuckleheads to leave some form of Hotmail branding still involved. Although m.outlook.com is the mobile server for Office 365 so I guess that's staying for the business/commercial accounts only.

[CaptainZombie]

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I've decided to give outlook a shot after making two previous posts last summer that I didn't like the look of it. Hotmail was giving me some issues the last few days and granted I now both Hotmail/Outlook are MSFT, I was going to go back to Gmail. I just don't like Gmail that much so will give Outlook a shot.