Hotmail out; Outlook in

Hotmail, the emailing service from Microsoft was the largest in the world. The classic service catered to the needs of around 324 million users around the world. That is about 36% of the entire internet users in the market. However, the Google services were making life difficult for Microsoft’s Hotmail.

Here the top five features of the new emailing service:

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• No wonder, the new service will have a new design. The new design will make it possible to use lesser pixels. However, the amount of mails visible in the inbox will be 30% more.
• Outlook.com is the new service will be known henceforth, will be able to connect to Facebook and to Twitter. That will make it easier for the users to connect to their friends and families directly. Users will also be able to view the latest status as well.
• Most importantly, users will be able to open and edit as well as share the various documents through Outlook.com. They will be able to work on MS Word, MS Excel and MS PowerPoint.
• Skype is integrated in the new mailing service. So video calling is also possible. But the fun part is that the video calling is made possible even if neither of the users have Skype installed.
• Outlook.com has integrated the company’s cloud storage service SkyDrive. The upside of this is that it does not hold any limit on the size of the mail attachments.