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Have you tried Outlook.com? Have you tried Gmail? How do the two applications compare? Do you have a preference?
Brilliant article and thanks so much for taking the time. Just for clarification, gmail has had a preview pane for over 12 months now.
epic fail on both 
google lost me when they forced a new look gmail that was a ui in shades of grey, no contrast for legibility.
google docs, never used it, not interested in keeping files with a service known to NOT respect privacy.
microsoft's option, calling it after the biggest vector of exploit incidents for windows just leaves a foul taste. never mind the 30 year history of no security, no respect for privacy they have.
google lost me when they forced a new look gmail that was a ui in shades of grey, no contrast for legibility.
google docs, never used it, not interested in keeping files with a service known to NOT respect privacy.
microsoft's option, calling it after the biggest vector of exploit incidents for windows just leaves a foul taste. never mind the 30 year history of no security, no respect for privacy they have.
Not bitter are you?
Both "have no repect for privacy" - what are you hiding?
Both "have no repect for privacy" - what are you hiding?
money from, but only if it's NOT stolen first.
You just need to activate it in Labs. Another big bonus is the way Gmail can prioritize your email. Comes in really handy after a vacation.
I switched my old hotmail account over to outlook.com, but wasn't impressed. Only really good thing was the social tie in aspect.
I switched my old hotmail account over to outlook.com, but wasn't impressed. Only really good thing was the social tie in aspect.
Actually, Outlook.com DOES have IMAP accessibility, sort of. It is actually MAPI just like Exchange, but it does require a special connector for Outlook. Windows phone of course has it native. Not sure on the other platforms if there is an app for it, but M$ has been quite agnostic in past years, and I would anticipate one.
An important add on to me at least is not only the Skydrive storage, but integration. You can truly go agnostic and still access whatever you want. Links to multiple PC's, mbile devices via skydrive app, and web access means wherever you store you files, you can still access them from any other device.
An important add on to me at least is not only the Skydrive storage, but integration. You can truly go agnostic and still access whatever you want. Links to multiple PC's, mbile devices via skydrive app, and web access means wherever you store you files, you can still access them from any other device.
but I've no trouble having Thunderbird pick up my gmail messages for me and displaying them in TB.
I'm in the middle of fixing up an problem in Outlook.com for an older friend due to the predatory processes of Microsoft. She's not computer literate and has had a Hotmail account for years (now called Live mail) and while trying to access her mail on the new laptop her daughter bought for her the laptop's hover = click on this kicked in and she got automatically updated to Outlook.com. Now this shouldn't have been an issue, but the auto update also gave her an automatic account with MS Messenger and about half the screen is set aside for MSN and ads, leaving little for the mail. The horrid side of this is the fact that after a week of digging around on the site I can NOT find anyway to undo this (and I use the term extremely loosely) upgrade and return to the standard Hotmail/Live mail service.
The results of the above is I no longer recommend either service to anyone, unless they want a free email they'll never check or one they'll only check through another mail client. In those two cases I recommend Gmail, but I recently had a report back that another friend couldn't create a Gmail account because the system did not like the 8 character password they had - the only one they can remember (another golden oldie) so it refused to continue the account creation process until he made up a password it would accept - result was he went off and opened a Yahoo mail account.
Summary - both the current Gmail and Outlook.com are garbage in both design, and choice of colours.
I'm in the middle of fixing up an problem in Outlook.com for an older friend due to the predatory processes of Microsoft. She's not computer literate and has had a Hotmail account for years (now called Live mail) and while trying to access her mail on the new laptop her daughter bought for her the laptop's hover = click on this kicked in and she got automatically updated to Outlook.com. Now this shouldn't have been an issue, but the auto update also gave her an automatic account with MS Messenger and about half the screen is set aside for MSN and ads, leaving little for the mail. The horrid side of this is the fact that after a week of digging around on the site I can NOT find anyway to undo this (and I use the term extremely loosely) upgrade and return to the standard Hotmail/Live mail service.
The results of the above is I no longer recommend either service to anyone, unless they want a free email they'll never check or one they'll only check through another mail client. In those two cases I recommend Gmail, but I recently had a report back that another friend couldn't create a Gmail account because the system did not like the 8 character password they had - the only one they can remember (another golden oldie) so it refused to continue the account creation process until he made up a password it would accept - result was he went off and opened a Yahoo mail account.
Summary - both the current Gmail and Outlook.com are garbage in both design, and choice of colours.
Can't all the MS Messenger stuff be disabled/removed? The interface you describe reminds me of Yahoo mail which is unusable in my opinion (great idea by Yahoo to let spammers try to chat with you; the option can be turned off, which renders the whole idea null and void).
hat, but I can't disable it and I can't go back to the plain Live mail set up - so she got royally screwed by the auto degradation. A new Yahoo account is the best i can do for because if I gave her another Live mail account it would just happen again.
so completely killed the google account, and won't go back.
told them before they forced it I would leave because of it, followed through when they forced it.
told them before they forced it I would leave because of it, followed through when they forced it.
Seriously, are you guys techs or not! There are a ton of customizations for gmail. Not quite as many for hotmail/outlook/live but plenty to choose from.
In this industry you must adapt to constant changes.
In this industry you must adapt to constant changes.
and it has a very bright washed-out look that gives eye strain while having too large icons. It's garbage on anything but a very small screen that it's designed for.
Correct... Gmail does indeed have the preview pane available under Labs. My setting didn't work for my originally but I did some further digging and found the problem. Thanks for the clarification! 
emember if you put stuff on/in the cloud it will most likely become public. that is the real cost of "free unlimited email storage?" look very closely at the service agreement. DO NOT TRACK may not apply here.
I've tried both, and one of the biggest things that attracts me to Gmail is tags. I can add multiple tags to an email, which is essential when a single email covers multiple issues. With a folder based system such as Outlook or Outlook.com, it is always tricky to decide which folder to place a multi-issue email in.
lot of messages out of the In box and the Sent box - it's very rare I need to identify an email as being relevant to more than one location, and the once a year it happens I can just copy the email into the other folder. However, I think they'd be best with BOTH folders and tags so both you and I can be happy.
I didn't see any mention of this and I searched techrepublic but didn't find any new articles. Google Apps is no longer free for NEW accounts.
http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2855120
http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2855120
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