Friday, May 3, 2013

Outlook.com vs. Gmail: What Microsoft is still missing

<p>The great Hotmail migration is over. Microsoft recently announced that Hotmail as we've known it for yours is gone baby gone, and all its users have been transitioned to Outlook.com, which now boasts more than 400 million users worldwide.</p><p>In its heyday, Hotmail was the go-to email client over competing services such as Yahoo. That changed around 2005, when Hotmail fans inevitably got an invite to Gmail from one of their friends. Gmail proved to be the superior Webmail service, and many Hotmail accounts began to languish.</p><p>Microsoft's trying to shift the ball back to its court with Outlook.com.</p><p>Beyond its sleek aesthetic and robust social media integration, Microsoft has packed the service with a bevy of handy-dandy new features in recent months, including a much improved Android app, a modern UI-style calendar, the Skype video call preview (which is not yet available in the U.S.), and new SMTP send and SkyDrive integration improvements added yesterday.</p><p><a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2037186/outlook-com-vs-gmail-what-microsoft-is-still-missing.html">Keep reading...</a></p>

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