Every one knows Microsoft's new email service Outlook.com a Hotmail revamp was made available more than a month ago, most of them who heard about it created a new account so did i, after giving it a try and checking out all the features one thing came to my mind is, do i really need to change ditching my existing gmail id? just for the windows 8 look and feel! though i tempted initially with outlook
mail for its sleek and out of the box UI, i refrained to switch because
of lacking feature and other reasons below:
Though opinions expressed here are purely based on my personal perception and taste if you think outlook.com really beats gmail do comment and participate in the poll above
Caste your vote and do say which do you think is better email service
1. UI Change does not attract new Users
Gmail offers me more than what i need, it's better than the corporate email service what most companies offer. It has important features such as pop, imap and exchange protocol support which you cannot find in free email services. whats more? lots of widgets in gmail lab which helps us personalize gmail to our taste, labels, voice and video chat in other words gmail is feature rich.
On the other hand outlook.com email is just a old wheels with new body created on the old chassis so called hotmail.
On the other hand outlook.com email is just a old wheels with new body created on the old chassis so called hotmail.
2. Change is hard and email is not a social network
People are more dependent on the email service for variety of purposes, using it as their means of communications to various services such as banking to daily communication with their friends and relatives it has become their primary identity on the world wide web and its like their virtual SSN. History has proven people have hopped between various social networking sites such as myspace, orkut, facebook etc but incase of the email service they seldom do because it is so tightly integrated with our daily online activities.
3. Gmail account is more necessary than we think.
Many yahoo, microsoft and apple fanatics who hate google still have gmail account because they cannot do away with important webservices such as google search, youtube, picasa, gtalk, android market etc all need gmail account one or the other time to use their services to the fullest.
4. Email may have attained end of its life cycle
Research have showed there is a lot of reduction on how many email a person sends perday just like it happened to snail mail a decade ago, this shows email services might have reached the end of its life cycle.
It was a time when cell phones were scares and instant messengers were non existant only way of communicatiting a distant friend was through reliable email service today with advent of messengers and social networking people share videos, jokes, gossips, etc online via social networking when once it was done via chain mail between friends.
Now people are using email as the medium for official communication or share documents which is presently not available on social network a day might come a social networking might replace email, so its too late for outlook.com to get into charts unless there is something cutting edge offered in its email service.
It was a time when cell phones were scares and instant messengers were non existant only way of communicatiting a distant friend was through reliable email service today with advent of messengers and social networking people share videos, jokes, gossips, etc online via social networking when once it was done via chain mail between friends.
Now people are using email as the medium for official communication or share documents which is presently not available on social network a day might come a social networking might replace email, so its too late for outlook.com to get into charts unless there is something cutting edge offered in its email service.
Though opinions expressed here are purely based on my personal perception and taste if you think outlook.com really beats gmail do comment and participate in the poll above
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