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First look: Microsoft's newest email client Outlook.com

No mention of the subject. Seems like a (slightly) modified browser. I have over 4GB in my Outlook Express and it is straining. Is there an advertised limit to Oulook.Com?

in addition to Outlook Express. Though I don't think I have 4 gigs of emails.
Live Mail sometimes seems to startup a tad slower, but it does a pretty good
job of spam filtering.

It's a new Web based email to replace hotmail. If you already have a hotmail account, all you need to do is go to outlook.com and log in with your username and password to check it out.

I have read numerous reviews of this so-called Outlook replacement for Hotmail. Your comment is the only one that said how to access it and precisely conveyed that it is just another webmail version. That's all I needed to know.

As usual, the change from image to image on this review page is too slow so closed page and went to different faster product review. Yes, have fast machine and browser(s).

I thought the GUI looks lots like AOL.com.

Does the new Outlook support color coding folders? For people with hundreds of folder and subfolders, having the option to color code them makes finding them easy.

This no-brainer upgrade should have been in Outlook years ago.......

First impressions - NOT GOOD!

Under the "Education" tab, you are only allowed to add one school. I would like to list my graduate AND undergraduate degrees. I'm sure some people may want to add their high school information.

It has potential.

what stuck me was that this was being tested on Firefox and not IE...just too ironic

I love the look and functionality. It's editable. Ads are less obtrusive also. What more could you want? I love it.

It appears this is another Microsoft attempt to encourage use of the Instant Messaging operation associated with Outlook. I don't use this feature on any of the things I have. Outlook, Hotmail, Facebook etc. Over years I have seen too many alerts about all types of nasty stuff getting into computers through IM linked paths. Thus, I avoid them. If I had my druthers, IM features in all of them would be able to be deleted from my computers and phone. MS is a bit better than other venues as they make it available and don't try to force it into use. Still, it can't be removed from their features or devices. Is this the way it will be on the Outlook.com site? Me thinks it probably will.

...when is Microsoft going to give us more options for themes/colors? I'm so sick of silver/black/blue.

Can't MS come up with a new name. This is the fourth "Outlook". First, there is Outlook Express which comes with Windows, then there is Outlook which comes with Office, then Outlook Web Access which comes with Exchange, and now this Outlook. Try supporting these things when the user has no idea what they are using--all they know is someone said it was Outlook. Each works differently. Same problem with Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer; two different animals with similar (at least to the user) names.

This looks like OWA revamped to look kinda like Hotmail. I like the 2003 Exchange server GUI for OWA. They will never have one as good - ever - I s'pect.

At least they didn't call it "browser"...

Although, if you look through services.msc there is a service called "Computer Browser". I suppose M$ can't call IE Internet Browser, that's like calling your brand of brown bread "Brown Bread".

The computer browser service primarily supports Windows Explorer, not IE.

Windows' file manager = Windows Explorer (Computer Browser service)
Windows' Internet browser = Internet Explorer (iexplore.exe)

Wouldn't it be confusing if you asked a user to open their "browser" and you had a computer browser and an Internet browser?!

"Open your web browser."

1. The browser's full name has always been - Microsoft Internet Explorer and shortened to MSIE and IE.

2. Microsoft claimed in court, on several occasions, that they could NOT remove MSIE from Windows because when they incorporated it into Windows 95 they used MSIE engine and sub-routines for the computer browser. In their most recent court cases on this in regards to Vista and Win 7 they restated that the Windows Explorer is the very same engine and sub-routines as MSIE and thus MSIE could NOT be cut out of the OS.

But it's only been a couple of days. I do like the new menu bar; it's much easier to find with the eyes than it was in Hotmail.