Hotmail closes. All of Outlook - Italian Notebook

Into interface simple yet refined, new techniques and new logo bases: these were the goals set by Microsoft Outlook to refresh and forever erase the bad image of Hotmail. Outlook.com was launched in “preview version” in July, and in November of that year, Microsoft had already grown to 25 million users (of which one-third coming from Gmail). In February, Redmond has officially announced the upgrade to Outlook for Hotmail account, stressing that the service was now used by 60 million subscribers .

Into Today, the Outlook team wrote on his blog that the “ migration is complete” . The company claims to have a total of 400 million active accounts , “of which 125 million (of users) who access their email, calendar and contacts on a mobile device by using Exchange ActiveSync. ” This would mean the transfer of 150 million gigabytes of data in 6 weeks “and, of course, billions of queries per day on the site.” Microsoft also claims that it will encourage more users to migrate from external accounts (Gmail and Yahoo) and it has published a comparison page between the three e-mail services.

Into The actual interface is loaded by the system faster and keeps on the left side of the functions like storing and managing folders e-mail messages. The right side of the screen, typically dedicated all’advertisement, is now occupied by tools that transform the e-mail accounts in a system that integrates multiple services , especially those social, not to miss a single echoed by new contacts. The latter, in particular, can be added to the list of friends major social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter from your contact list or other e-mail services quickly creating an address book unique and updated with a few clicks.

Into Outlook.com but does not look only to the social and the minimalism of the interface, but also to the world of productivity . With the new service from Microsoft you can share directly within the latter made with the new Office documents stored on SkyDrive and for collaborative work with their colleagues.

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