Microsoft unleashes Outlook.com as Hotmail successor

New browser-based email service comes connected to Facebook and Skype

Microsoft has rebranded the Hotmail service to become Outlook.com.

Currently in preview, Outlook.com is being heralded as a re-imagined email service by Microsoft.

The new email service is packaged with tools to organise emails based on content and sender. Outlook.com also includes Facebook, Free Office Web apps and SkyDrive integration.

« We think the time is right to re-imagine email. So today, we’re introducing a preview of Outlook.com, » Microsoft Windows Live division head Chris Jones explained in a blog post.

« We realised that we needed to take a bold step, break from the past and build you a brand new service from the ground up. »

Outlook.com is being pegged as the eventual successor to the longstanding Hotmail service. Microsoft has yet to announce a full launch date, but the preview period has officially kicked off today.

Hotmail users will be offered the opportunity to make the switch to the new service, but an upgrade isn’t necessary at this time. The Outlook email client application will continue to be available in conjunction with the new browser email service.

Microsoft claims that up to 50 per cent of emails are newsletters and the company says Outlook.com will organise email inboxes to streamline the process.

Outlook.com can be connected to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google accounts. Plans are also being set in motion to add Skype integration in the near future.

The new email service comes fully integrated with Office Web apps and the SkyDrive cloud service. The new integration will allow users to edit emailed documents in the browser and send files through Microsoft’s cloud.

Microsoft was forced to release a fix for a critical security flaw for the Hotmail login earlier this year. The flaw allowed for hackers to control user email accounts by resetting a user’s password.

How to set up a Hotmail account on iPhone

Yesterday I received a call from a friend asking how to set up a Hotmail email account on her new iPhone. I was actually surprised she was asking this because she already has an iPad and didn’t seem to have any problem setting up Hotmail on it.

While looking into her issue, I remembered that the Hotmail brand has been retired and replaced by Outlook, which I assume is causing a lot of confusion for people still looking for the Hotmail option in the iPhone or iPad settings.

I figured that if my friend needed instructions on how to set up Hotmail on iPhone, she probably wasn’t the only one, hence this post…

How to set up Hotmail on iPhone

Note that these instructions have been written for Hotmail, but the process is exactly the same whether you want to set up an Outlook, Live, or MSN account. This tutorial shows you how to do this on an iPhone, but the steps are identical on iPad.

Step 1: Go to Settings > Accounts & Passwords > Add Account.

Set up Hotmail on iPhone

Step 2: Select Outlook.com. As noted above, the process is the same whether you have a Hotmail, Live, or MSN email account.

Step 3: A login page will appear on your screen. First, enter you email address and tap Next.

Enter Hotmail email address

Step 4: Enter your Hotmail email password, and tap Sign in.

Enter your Hotmail password

Step 5: Tap Yes to confirm you want to give permission to iOS to access your data.

Allow Outlook access to your data

Step 6: Select what Hotmail data you want to have access to on your iPhone. You can choose to sync your email, contacts, calendars, and reminders with Hotmail. By default everything is turned on. Once you have selected what you want, tap Save.

Hotmail email contacts calendars on iPhone

Step 7: Go to the Mail application on your iPhone. Your newly created Hotmail account should be available there.

Additional notes: By default, only one week worth of emails is synced with your iPhone, but you can easily change that. To do so, go back to Settings > Accounts & Passwords > Outlook > Mail Days to Sync > and choose how many days should be synced. If you want to have access to all your emails, choose No Limit.

set up hotmail for iphone

As you can tell, setting up Hotmail on iPhone is pretty straightforward. Remember that adding Hotmail to iPad is just as easy. Just follow the steps above and you should be up and running in no time. Maybe the most important here is to remember that Hotmail is now Outlook, and although it doesn’t change anything for you as a user, the Outlook option is the one you must choose to get Hotmail working on your iPhone.

Microsoft, Apple fixes Hotmail malfunction on iPad

On Thursday, Microsoft said it was working with Apple to address the issues that iPad clients have with Windows Live Hotmail.

« We have seen a few issues with utilizing Hotmail on a tablet (MTB) Apple’s iPad, » said Mike Schackwitz, Hotmail account program director conceded.

IPad clients have announced issues with email benefits on the Microsoft site, including the solidifying of the iPad Safari program and powerlessness to form another message or answer to got mail. Monday 6/4/2010 a client iPad has been nicknamed « mitchgrrt » said he can peruse mail however can not compose new or answer to messages. iPad does not enable him to type in the letter and Safari is suspended.

« We are working with Apple to comprehend the issues, and we will settle them as fast as would be prudent, » Schackwitz said. He didn’t give a timetable to settling Hotmail.

On Apple’s help gathering, most iPad clients say they could recover their Hotmail messages in the wake of setting up a Mail customer on the MT to get to Microsoft’s administration as a POP record. Others have approached iPad clients to change to Hotmail versatile sites (which are more appropriate for littler screens on cell phones). From that point forward, Microsoft has diverted all entrance from the iPad to the portable variant.

Microsoft « refurbished » Hotmail: « Crisis » than Gmail

New version of Hotmail allows attachment of up to 50 MB and 200 attachments per email, 400 times higher than Gmail.

Microsoft has unveiled the Hotmail Wave 4 version of its e-mail service. Expected, this version will be launched public beta test run in July this year.

Hotmail Wave 4 adds a number of new features that are still the strength of its own Gmail, Google’s email service, such as the « sticky » email in the form of a dialogue, advanced search box with multiple options. Extremely large storage or live views, images, video, or attachments in the mailbox … Buttons are also simplified and replaced as links.

The most popular feature of Hotmail Wave 4 is the ability to edit and edit Microsoft Office documents directly in email. Users can reply to emails with the attachment they just edited.

If you do not want to see the banner ads in the mail window, users need to spend $ 19.95 per year to buy a Hotmail Plus account.

So far, Hotmail is still one of the « amazing » successes in the Internet world. It was born in 1996 and is not the first webmail service, but Hotmail’s friendly and reliable interface has attracted users all over the world and then acquired by Microsoft in the year. 1997 for $ 400 million.

Today, Hotmail is still the world’s most popular email service (with more than 400 million users) but in the US it is second only to Yahoo Mail and is being closely followed by Gmail.

The new features added to Hotmail are the technology that will make Gmail extremely worried:

-Hotmail will also automatically group the emails of the same sender and form a dialog box to help the owner of the mailbox easily track the evolution of the exchange. This is Hotmail « learning » Gmail, but Microsoft has improved a bit by the ability to allow users to turn it on or off as default as in Gmail.

– Hotmail allows attachments up to 50 MB, double the size of Gmail.

– Each email in Hotmail is allowed to attach a file size up to 10 GB, 400 times higher than the limit of Gmail (that can attach up to 200 files, each file is 50 MB).

– Hotmail claims support for all mobile browsers and self-synchronization between mailboxes and mobile.

– Users can view and edit attachments in Hotmail just as they are working on a Microsoft Office file.

– Hotmail allows users to reply to e-mails with the attachments they have edited, without having to start new messages and attach new ones.

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