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Microsoft reveals Outlook.com

By Staff Writers on Aug 2, 2012 12:49PM
Microsoft reveals Outlook.com

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Microsoft yesterday unveiled its new cloud-based personal email service Outlook.com, its first personal email client since it launched the ageing Hotmal service in 1996.

Outlook.com runs alongside the new Outlook desktop application and is available to all including non-Windows users. It uses Exchange ActiveSync to power email across various devices.

Microsoft has included free Office Web Apps - Word, Powerpoint, Excel and OneNote - within the email client. Emails are automatically sorted depending on the sender, while SkyDrive is integrated into Outlook.com for extra file size. 

The service offers social media integration with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google. Personal email comes with photos of friends, recent status updates and Tweets as well as the ability to chat and video call. Skype is in line for future integration.

The user's contact list is also connected to their social media networks.

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Microsoft was keen to tout its security credentials to assuage any fears about privacy with the new social media integration. 

"We don't scan your email content or attachments and sell this information to advertisers or any other company, and we don't show ads in personal conversations," it said in a blog post.

"We let you decide whether to connect your account to social networks, and which ones you want to use - and you're in control of who you friend or follow."

The release marks the first step in the phasing out of the Hotmail service. Hotmail users, and others, can upgrade to Outlook.com, and the accompanying @outlook.com email address, from today.

The Outlook.com preview is available from today.

 


Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google information integrates into the email client
 

 

Editing Word, Excel etc documents inside Outlook.com 

 

 

 

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By Staff Writers
Aug 2 2012
12:49PM
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