The New Hotmail look

[harrybarracuda]

You can try it here

[nidhogg]

Yucks.

Fuck me - how do I put it back???

whew - back, Yucks.

[boatboy]

Yucks.

Fuck me - how do I put it back???

whew - back, Yucks.

Fuck, me to
How did you do it?

[nidhogg]

Yucks.

Fuck me - how do I put it back???

whew - back, Yucks.

Fuck, me to
How did you do it?

Think the option is in the settings...somewhere on the right hand side...have to click something, then its the last choice on the drop down...

Sorry - don't know how to explain better...

[Butterfly]

looks perfectly appropriate for the new Facebook Generation

Web 3.0 is turning gay,

[Mid]

Microsoft goes cold on Hotmail
August 1, 2012

San Francisco - Microsoft is pulling the plug on Hotmail, one of the early leaders in web-based email, and plans to transition the service's more than 350 million users to a new email service called Outlook.com, the software giant announced Tuesday.

The new service will, as its name suggests, tie in with the Microsoft email program of the same name that is part of the company’s popular Office suite of business software.

Microsoft touted the new system as the biggest change in web-based email since the introduction of Hotmail in 1996. Microsoft bought the company a year later for an estimated 400 million dollars.

According to a blog posting by product manager Chris Jones, Outlook.com combines contact information from emails and popular social networking services such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google Plus.

Featuring a minimalist design, the new service boasts powerful tools for sorting emails, including automatic recognition of newsletters, social media updates and junk mail that, according to Jones, accounts for some 70 per cent of inbox content.

The service also automatically recognizes emails with photos, documents or shipping information attached and sends these to pre-selected folders.

While the free service is ad-supported, Microsoft said that unlike Google’s gmail service the ads will not be related to the content ofusers’ emails.//DPA

nationmultimedia.com

[harrybarracuda]

You'll find it bears more than a passing resemblance to

[kingwilly]

Who the fuck cares?

[nidhogg]

Who the fuck cares?

Well - me for one.

I use hotmail as my main email account, mainly for the simple reason that over the last 20 or so years (or so) I have worked in several different countries with several different companies. Works accounts are great - right up to the point at which you change your job.

Hotmail goes with me where ever I am, and I have had people contact through the email from 10 or 15 years ago.

[ltnt]

Who the fuck cares?

IT geeks and me. What's a "social network?"

[Bangyai]

What's a "social network?"

A very poor substitute for a trip to the Eden club followed by a beer chaser in Thermaes.

Social networks ...... I shit 'em

[Rural Surin]

Who the fuck cares?

Probably millions...
As hotmail is far and away the most used "free' email service.

Even though there are a few reasonably sound free alternatives.

[kingwilly]

Yeah, I had a hotmail, but it sucks dogballs. Yahoo and then gmail shit over hotmail years ago.

I hear re: emails from old friends, but with all the different social media options out there now, tis a simple matter of google.

[harrybarracuda]

I pick up my Exchange, Gmail, Hotmail and ISP POP mail in Outlook, so I never actually bother with the client except just to keep tabs on the phone.

[tuferguson]

are the actual email addresses changing from [email protected] to [email protected] as well as the design ?

[harrybarracuda]

are the actual email addresses changing from [email protected] to [email protected] as well as the design ?

The answer to that, and some other info, is below:

31 July 2012 Last updated at 19:31 GMT Hotmail to be replaced by Outlook.com in Microsoft switch


The new webmail service integrates the firm's Skype video chat functions.


Microsoft is overhauling its free webmail service, dropping the Hotmail brand it has used since acquiring the product in 1998, and adopting the name Outlook.com.
The revamped service will help sort messages as they arrive and allow users to make internet calls on Skype.


It said the move would help tackle the problem of "cluttered" inboxes.
The action may also be designed to win over users of Google's rival Gmail service.
Microsoft said that in many cases email had become a "chore" because its users accounts had become "overloaded" with material.
Its solution is to automatically sort messages into different areas to distinguish between emails from contacts, newsletters, package delivery notices, social network posts and other identifiers determined by the account holder.
In addition it is taking steps to link the Outlook account with other services the user might have subscribed to.
"We are giving you the first email service that is connected to Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Google, and soon, Skype, to bring relevant context and communications to your email," the firm's Chris Jones said on its blog.
"In the Outlook.com inbox, your personal email comes alive with photos of your friends, recent status updates and tweets that your friend has shared with you, the ability to chat and video call - all powered by an always up-to-date contact list that is connected to your social networks."
Targeting Google In what may be perceived as a dig at Google, Mr Jones added that the firm would not scan email content or attachments in order to sell the information to advertisers or others.

Large photos and video can be sent via the firm's Skydrive service avoiding attachment size limits.



He also announced that web versions of the firm's Office apps were built-in, potentially helping it counter competition from other web-based application suits such as Google Docs and Zoho Docs.
Outlook.com also links up with Microsoft's Skydrive cloud storage, allowing users to send photos and other documents via the service to avoid the risk of going over their attachment size limit.
This could pose a threat to the rival Google Drive service as well as Dropbox, Sugarsync and others.
'Cleaned up' Mr Jones said the firm had built a "brand new service from the ground up". But Matt Cain, an analyst at the tech consultants Gartner, played down the suggestion of a major leap forwards.
"Outlook.com represents reverse-consumerisation - taking a ubiquitous business tool and recrafting it for the consumer market," he told BBC.
"There really is no new technology here - the filtering tools have been around for some time as well as the social network integration.
"What is new is the cleaned up user interface, and the marketing spin, and the tight integration with office web apps and Skydrive, and the forthcoming integration with Skype."
Microsoft is offering the service in a "preview" mode for the time being and has not announced an official release date.
While it advises users to upgrade, Hotmail subscribers can stick with the old system if they wish - at least for now.
Those who do make the change keep their @hotmail, @msn or @live.com email address ending, but can also add an @outlook.com address to their account if they wish.

[slackula]

What is new is the cleaned up user interface, and the marketing spin, and the tight integration with office web apps and Skydrive, and the forthcoming integration with Skype.

I use about half a dozen email accounts regularly, I can't think of any benefits that having them talking to my word processing apps or my skype account would bring.

[harrybarracuda]

Er... getting an email with a phone number and being able to click on it and call them?

Getting a Spreadsheet in an email and editing it before sending it back?

[ltnt]

Isn't this just one more invasive action by the Internet providers like MS and Google to gain share? I use many different functions like Skype and do so when I want to not when someone on the other end wants to dial me up. I suppose I can still press; Reject caller?

[harrybarracuda]

Isn't this just one more invasive action by the Internet providers like MS and Google to gain share? I use many different functions like Skype and do so when I want to not when someone on the other end wants to dial me up. I suppose I can still press; Reject caller?

Or you can block calls from unknown numbers.

How do you manage telephone calls now? And what's the difference?

I call this convenience, not invasion of privacy. After all, why are you going to send someone your number if you don't want them to call you?

[Rural Surin]

*****

[Rural Surin]

What's invasive is the generational mindwashing of needing to be "connected", instintively, every fucking minute of the day and night. There are numerous conduits for constent stimulation and interaction.....don't know if this is beneficial or not.

20 years ago - life was lived, things got done. Without the angst of being available.

A metaphorical Zombie Apocalypse can't be far off.

[The Fresh Prince]

While the free service is ad-supported, Microsoft said that unlike Google’s gmail service the ads will not be related to the content of users’ emails.//DPA

So who would advertise with a someone who sends your ads to un-related customers?

[harrybarracuda]

Not me mate. You can set most Android mail clients to stop connecting during your chosen "Quiet Time" and set all the notifications for SMS and calls off, too. My phone isn't on when I CHOOSE it not to be so.

If people want to be glued to their mobile 24/7 that's their problem.

[harrybarracuda]

Makes perfect sense....

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