Is outlook.com a game changer?
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You may be confused by what outlook.com is. It is not an email client like Microsoft, it is a web-based email service. It does have a rich web client as a front end and does support POP and IMAP so you could even use your Outlook mail client on your laptop with outlook.com.
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Clearly, which is why I made my post. What advantage does outlook.com offer to someone using Outlook with a corporate exchange server?
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You wouldn't use either one for corporate email.
outlook is an email client, you can use outlook with an exchange server, an imap server, a pop server or all of the above at the same time with different email accounts. one or more of those accounts might be hosted on outlook.com.
Yes, I guess you can argue that the name is a bit confusing.
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The new UI allows for more messages to be seen on the screen
It links to a bunch of social networks like facebook, twitter, google, linked in etc
Tablets and Iphone users get active sync to manage their accounts
The sweep feature moves stuff for you instead of you having to move things one by one
It's adding skydrive to compete on a more even platform with services like DropBox
Less ads, and controls when you see them
Make skype calls from your inbox
It's tied with the web versions of the office suite, so you can make edits to documents from you inbox
Mailbox quick views
It links to a bunch of social networks like facebook, twitter, google, linked in etc
Tablets and Iphone users get active sync to manage their accounts
The sweep feature moves stuff for you instead of you having to move things one by one
It's adding skydrive to compete on a more even platform with services like DropBox
Less ads, and controls when you see them
Make skype calls from your inbox
It's tied with the web versions of the office suite, so you can make edits to documents from you inbox
Mailbox quick views
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Good summary. I am a casual hotmail user so I wasn't sure what bells and whistles had been added.
(And given the thread topic - "game changer" - I was poking around not looking for bells/whistles.)
(And given the thread topic - "game changer" - I was poking around not looking for bells/whistles.)
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The spam filtering is really good.
I think they (media) is calling it a game changer because it may allow them to compete on the same platform as gmail. If there was no gmail it would be significant changes, but it's catch up just to get to the same place.
I think they (media) is calling it a game changer because it may allow them to compete on the same platform as gmail. If there was no gmail it would be significant changes, but it's catch up just to get to the same place.
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Office 365 is Microsoft's hosted cloud services. It's been a while since I looked into it, but two things turned me off to them: 1. There is no free basic level service, and 2. Microsoft requires you to delegate your domain's DNS to their name servers.
- 30 outbound emails per minute
- 500 or 1500 emails per rolling 24 hr period (number depends on how much you pay, a couple of accounts on a large enterprise can be upgraded to 6000)
- various throttling limits on connection count, CPU time, authentication time (if setup to use your own Active Directory, not theirs).
- sending is slow, the solution was to receive via 365 and send via internal SMTP server. (lucky 'the cloud' would save us? )
O365 is also drastically slower than the older BPOS when it comes to sending and receiving messages, the BPOS connector sucked - but the email service was at least fast and not throttled back.
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I always get a chuckle whenever I see @yahoo.com and @aol.com email addresses.
90% of the time it's from spam, although I do have grandparents and older folk that use yahoo or aol.
I do miss AOL's free trial discs, they made great coasters when entertaining people.
<3 Gmail and Gchat for pretty much everything, I see no reason to switch from google to Outlook.
90% of the time it's from spam, although I do have grandparents and older folk that use yahoo or aol.
I do miss AOL's free trial discs, they made great coasters when entertaining people.
<3 Gmail and Gchat for pretty much everything, I see no reason to switch from google to Outlook.
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Funny, about a month ago I was asked to see how many e-mail addresses in our database were both still active (they did not unsubscribe, they did not get a couple of hard bounces in a row) and aol.
I was expecting a couple hundred at most, it was 23,679 out of something like 126,000 valid addresses.
I was expecting a couple hundred at most, it was 23,679 out of something like 126,000 valid addresses.
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