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For the desktop email and information management program, see Microsoft Outlook.
Outlook.com
File:Outlook.com inbox and message view.png
Screenshot of Outlook.com inbox view with social media window
Type of site
Webmail
Available in106 languages
OwnerMicrosoft
Created byMicrosoft
URLwww.outlook.com
CommercialYes
RegistrationRequired
Users420 million (merged from hotmail.com) (18 February 2013)[1]
Launched31 July 2012; 12 years ago (2012-07-31)
Current statusOnline
Content license
Proprietary

Outlook.com is a webmail service from Microsoft, introduced in July 2012[3] and officially launched in February 2013, as the replacement to Hotmail.[1][4] Outlook.com features Microsoft's Metro design language, and closely mimics the interface of Microsoft Outlook. During the preview, new @outlook.com email addresses were made available to all users, and existing Hotmail users were able to opt into the Outlook.com interface. On February 18, 2013, Microsoft announced that Outlook.com was leaving preview, having signed up 60 million users in 6 months. All existing Hotmail users have been upgraded to Outlook.com as of April 3, 2013.[1]

Features

Similar to other major webmail services, Outlook.com uses Ajax programming techniques and supports Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Firefox and Safari (although Microsoft has not specified a minimum version number for each web browser).[5] Some of its features include keyboard shortcuts for navigating around the page without using the mouse, the ability to search the user's messages including structured query syntax such as "from:facebook", message filters, folder-based organization of messages, auto-completion of contact addresses when composing, contact grouping, importing and exporting of contacts as CSV files, rich text formatting, rich text signatures, spam filtering and virus scanning, support for multiple addresses, and different language versions.

Outlook.com offers the following features:

Privacy

Outlook.com has promised to respect user's privacy, specifically targeting Gmail's privacy practices.[6] Outlook.com doesn't scan emails or attachments for advertising information and personal conversations are ad-free entirely.[7][8]

Active View

Outlook.com's Active View allows users to interact directly with contents and functionality within their email message. For example, any photo attachments can be previewed directly using Active View. In addition, Outlook.com provides a partner platform which allows contents and functionality from various websites and services such as YouTube, Flickr, LinkedIn, and United States Postal Service to be viewed directly within the email message. For example, users may view the YouTube video within Outlook.com when a user receives an email which contains a link to the video. Other Active View features include tracking of real time shipping status from United States Postal Service and performing social networking actions on LinkedIn or other social networking sites directly from within the email message.

Office Web Apps integration

Outlook.com integrates with Office Web Apps to allow high fidelity viewing and editing of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents that are attached to the email messages. Users can directly open attached Office documents within the web browser, and save them into their SkyDrive. Users can also perform edits to any received Office documents, and directly reply to the sender with the edited version of the document. In addition, users may also send up to 25 GB of Office documents (up to 50 MB each) using Outlook.com by uploading these documents onto SkyDrive, and share these documents with other users for viewing or collaboration.

Conversation threading

Outlook.com provides the ability to automatically group sent and received emails that are from the same conversation into the same conversation thread, allowing users to quickly browse through all the emails within the same conversation thread. This feature can be turned on or off depending on the user's preferences.

Sweep

Outlook.com offers a "virtual broom" which allow users to delete or move large amounts of emails into specified folders based on the sender's information. Once a "sweep" is performed, the user may choose to configure Outlook.com to remember the sweep settings and perform the same move or delete actions for any future emails. Users may also set up custom message rules based on the sender's or recipient's information, the subject of the email, or attachments to the email. There is also an option to delete/move messages that are older than a specified amount of days, or only keep the latest message from a sender.

Quick views and one-click filters

Quick views allow users to filter all emails (in all folders) by document attachments, photo attachments, flagged messages, or shipping updates. One-click filters allow users to filter the inbox (or specific folder) based on whether or not the email message is unread, from the People service list, from group mailing lists or Windows Live Groups, or from a social networking website. Categories appear under quick views for ease of access.

Aliases

Users can create additional, unique email addresses, called aliases, for their Microsoft account. As of April 17, 2013, users can now sign in with any alias and create up to 10 aliases per year for a total of up to 10 addresses. For a given account, all aliases uses the same inbox, contact list, and account settings—including password—as the primary address. Once an alias is set up, users can choose to have all email sent to that address go to the inbox, or to a different folder.[9] Emails sent from an alias do not reveal to recipients that they come from an account with other addresses.

Categories

Categories allow users to label messages or senders into a particular group, and those categories will appear under "Quick views" in the sidebar. Some categories are created by default, and some mail is put in those categories by default (e.g. photos, office docs and newsletters). Users can select multiple categories for each piece of mail, have categories applied automatically, and create new ones.

Instant actions

Instant actions are buttons that appear when a user hovers the mouse over a message. Examples of instant actions are delete, move, sweep, and flag, and they are customizable in options.

Single-use code

A single-use code is a code that can be used instead of a user's password when signing in to a Microsoft account. Each code can be used only one time, but one can be requested whenever needed. If a user is signing in on a public computer—such as at the library or school—using a single-use code helps keep account information secure. The single-use code is sent to the user when requested during login.

Security

Outlook.com uses DMARC specifications to provide better security for message transmission and Extended Validation Certificate to secure the user's connection with Outlook.com.[10]

On April 17, 2013, Microsoft added two step verification.

Skype integration

A preview version of Skype for Outlook.com started rolling out in the UK on April 30. This feature allows users to make a Skype video call within Outlook.com without using the Skype desktop client.[11]

Localization

The user interface of Outlook has been localized into 98 languages and locales to date, including:

  1. Afrikaans
  2. Albanian
  3. Amharic
  4. Arabic
  5. Armenian
  6. Assamese
  7. Azeri
  8. Basque
  9. Belarusian
  10. Bengali
  11. Bokmål
  12. Bosnian
  13. Brazilian Portuguese
  14. Bulgarian
  15. Catalan
  16. Chinese
  17. Croatian
  18. Czech
  19. Danish
  20. Dari
  21. Dutch
  22. Estonian
  23. European Portuguese
  24. English
  25. Filipino
  26. Finnish
  27. French
  28. Galician
  29. Georgian
  30. German
  31. Greek
  32. Gujarati
  33. Hausa
  34. Hebrew
  35. Hindi
  36. Hungarian
  37. Icelandic
  38. Igbo
  39. Indonesian
  40. Inuktitut
  41. Irish
  42. Italian
  43. Japanese
  44. Kannada
  45. Kazakh
  46. Khmer
  47. Kinyarwanda
  48. Korean
  49. Kurdish (Arabic Script)
  50. Kyrgyz
  51. Latvian
  52. Lithuanian
  53. Luxembourgish
  54. Macedonian
  55. Malay
  56. Malayalam
  57. Maltese
  58. Māori
  59. Marathi
  60. Mongolian
  61. Nepali
  62. Northern Sotho
  63. Nynorsk
  64. Oriya
  65. Persian
  66. Polish
  67. Punjabi
  68. Quechua
  69. Romanian
  70. Russian
  71. Scottish Gaelic
  72. Setswana
  73. Sindhi
  74. Sinhala
  75. Slovenian
  76. Slovak
  77. Swahili
  78. Serbian
  79. Spanish
  80. Swedish
  81. Tajik
  82. Tamil
  83. Tatar
  84. Telugu
  85. Thai
  86. Tigrinya
  87. Turkish
  88. Turkmen
  89. Ukrainian
  90. Urdu
  91. Uyghur
  92. Uzbek
  93. Vietnamese
  94. Welsh
  95. Wolof
  96. Xhosa
  97. Yoruba
  98. Zulu

History

Outlook.com was first introduced on 31 July 2012 when its beta version was made available to the general public. Existing Hotmail customers could freely upgrade to the preview version of Outlook and downgrade back.[3]

Outlook.com graduated preview stage on 18 February 2013. According to Microsoft, existing Hotmail users have been upgraded to Outlook.com while retaining their @hotmail.com email address, password, messages, folders, contacts, rules, vacation replies, etc. and will have the option of having @outlook.com email address.[1]

Criticism

Outlook.com has been criticized[by whom?] for its lack of IMAP support. Microsoft has promised future IMAP capability and better Apple Mac support.[12]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d Law, David (18 February 2013). "Outlook.com leaves preview as the world's fastest growing email service going from 0 to 60 million in just 6 months". Outlook Blog. Microsoft. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
  2. ^ "Outlook.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2013-06-02.
  3. ^ a b Jones, Chris (31 July 2012). "Introducing Outlook.com - Modern Email for the Next Billion Mailboxes". Outlook Blog. Microsoft. Retrieved 31 July 2012.
  4. ^ Thurrott, Paul (31 July 2012). "Outlook.com Mail: Microsoft Reimagines Webmail". Supersite for Windows. Penton Media. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
  5. ^ "Supported browsers". Microsoft. Retrieved 31 October 2012.
  6. ^ "Scroogled". Retrieved 6 April 2013.
  7. ^ "Outlook-Private". Retrieved 6 April 2013.
  8. ^ Hiner, Jason (2 August 2012). "Dump Gmail for Outlook.com? Four reasons you might". Retrieved 6 April 2013.
  9. ^ "Add an Outlook.com alias to your account". Windows. Microsoft. Retrieved 11 May 2013.
  10. ^ Vitaldevara, Krish (10 December 2012). "Outlook.com increases security with support for DMARC and EV certificates". Outlook Blog. Microsoft. Retrieved 12 December 2012.
  11. ^ . United States. 30 April 2013 http://blogs.skype.com/2013/04/29/type-less-talk-more-make-skype-calls-directly-from-your-outlook-com-inbox/#fbid=44PZKle7Th6. Retrieved 5 May 2013. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  12. ^ Dua, Kunal. "Microsoft says Outlook.com IMAP support "coming", promises better Mac support". Retrieved 22 February 2013.

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