Meet Microsoft Outlook.com E-mail
Say hello to Microsoft's new free email account, Outlook.com
Even as almost everything else in technology changes at breakneck speeds, e-mail continues to stay relatively constant. Google changed the game when it introduced Gmail in 2004, but most of the browser-based services like Hotmail, Yahoo, and AOL have barely evolved. It's not often we get a shakeup in the email world, but say hello to Microsoft's new free email account, Outlook.com. It'll eventually be replacing Hotmail, but you might want to grab your name now. There's a new, clean look and it ties in your social media contacts.
With its new Outlook.com e-mail, Microsoft is trying to change that perception. And by most measures it succeeds. Designed as an eventual replacement to Hotmail, the free browser-based service sports a strikingly simple interface, Skydrive and social media integration, and lots of tweaks both new and familiar. And with a promise of "virtually unlimited" storage (we'll see how that pans out), it should satisfy the most prolific writers and media consumers.
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