Microsoft has some major plans up their sleeves. With the imminent arrival of Windows 8, the company has also decided to give a much-needed makeover to its email application. Microsoft’s Outlook Blog, only recently, unveiled the brand new Outlook.com, a new online email portal that cleans up the traditional inbox user interface and adds several social networking features to the mix.
Microsoft has radically cleaned up the interface with Outlook.com displaying 30 percent more messages than Hotmail does, while the header has 60 percent fewer pixels. Plus, there are also no more display ads. Basically, the idea is to provide a more polished Outlook experience for people’s personal email accounts, regardless of it being on the computer or a mobile device.
“In the Outlook.com inbox, your personal email comes alive with photos of your friends, recent status updates and Tweets that your friend has shared with you, the ability to chat and video call - all powered by an always up-to-date contact list that is connected to your social networks. And, of course, you are in control of your experience - what you share, the networks you connect to, and your personal information,” states the official Outlook Blog.
Digging deep into Outlook.com, all emails will be available via Microsoft’s SkyDrive cloud service and Outlook.com will automatically categorize emails depending on who they’re from. As an example, emails from contacts will be assembled together while any newsletters will also be placed in a separate category. Microsoft states that this will help users “sweep” through emails quickly and easily.
What’s more, all your contacts will be synched with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google and eventually Skype. What this means is that your address book will be filled with the latest photos and status updates from your friends’ social networks. As far as the Office Web Apps, such as Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote, are concerned, they will also get integrated into Outlook.com, and users will be able to view and edit documents within their email inbox.
You can read more about it here.
Check out the Outlook walkthrough below
