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Outlook.com Claims Ten Million Users In 2 Weeks — Have You Signed Up?

Outlook.com Claims Ten Million Users In 2 Weeks — Have You Signed Up?

August 17, 2012
by Jay Caruso

In appearing to finally do something other than offer up the awful Hotmail web based email solution, Microsoft has released Outlook.com, a web based email system they say is a “modern experience for modern browsers and devices.”

If numbers are any indication, they are off to a good start.

From The Verge:

Microsoft launched its new Metro-style webmail service Outlook.com two weeks ago, and it looks like users are switching over to the Hotmail replacement at a pretty steady clip. Alongside its complete SkyDrive revamp, the company has announced that over 10 million have signed up for the service. The last number we heard was a rather impressive one million users in 24 hours, and while that pace has dropped off a bit, it’s still impressive growth. Of course, the stats may be thrown off just a bit by eager users claiming vanity email addresses before they’re all snatched up — have you secured yours yet?

I do agree with their sentiment that many of the users are signing up to get the email address they want and aren’t actually using the service. I know this because I am one of those people.

That being said, I have played around with it a little and thus far I am very impressed. Here are the reasons why:

  1. I wasn’t forced to connect an existing Microsoft account to sign up. Signing up was very easy and fast.
  2. You only need to get a text message to verify your account and enter a code. After that, you are good to go.
  3. The interface is very minimal and clean. There are ads, but they sit to the right of the screen and aren’t noticeable.
  4. You can connect to your Gmail account, Facebook and Twitter.

Here is a snapshot video of the service:

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And here is a screenshot of the interface:

Have you tried it out yet?

What do you think?

Jay Caruso

I am photographer. I love my wife and kids immensely. I have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, my Savior. I was an IT Director and Project Manager for 10 years. Now I am a Senior Logistics Analyst at The Home Depot. I love the sport of baseball and the New York Yankees.

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  1. Jimmy Pautz says

    August 17, 2012

    I like the interface better than Gmail, but it will be hard to switch since I’m entrenched in Gmail. I may have to look into connecting the gmail to outlook.com

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    • Eric Dye says

      August 18, 2012

      I’m in the same boat.

      I really do like the feel of it and I like how they won’t use my messages to advertise to me … but like you … I’m so hooked in at this point … :-/

      Reply
    • Jay Caruso says

      August 27, 2012

      That would be the hardest part. I am going to connect my Gmail to it in order to see what it is like.

      Reply
  2. Bryan Chalker says

    August 17, 2012

    Agree with Jimmy – beautiful interface, but GMail has become my goto 🙂

    I will check it out, though, as the folder organization display is so much better than tags for structuring client interactions. Not for everyone, but in my case, a much tighter way of working. I use Google Chat so often, that having it accessible all the time, has become really handy…and the auto-save drafts have saved my hide more than once. If MS Outlook.com had an auto save draft feature, I would be more interested.

    Just imo

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    • Jay Caruso says

      August 27, 2012

      Yeah I don’t like the lack of an auto-save. I can’t count the number of times that has saved me.

      Reply

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