{"id":1894,"date":"2012-11-30T19:39:14","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T19:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/?p=378"},"modified":"2012-11-30T19:39:14","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T19:39:14","slug":"hands-on-with-the-new-outlook-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/hands-on-with-the-new-outlook-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Hands On With the New Outlook.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven\u2019t heard, Microsoft has launched Outlook.com, a browser version of its widely used Outlook email client.\u00a0 Most of us have used Outlook at one point or another in business environments or at home.\u00a0 Microsoft is attempting to take over the web market that is dominated by Yahoo, Gmail, and believe or not, AOL.\u00a0 Although Microsoft already has Hotmail, it has been losing users to Gmail and other email clients.\u00a0 I tried out the new Outlook.com, and tested for you, and here are my results.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 195px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/YYYG0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"214\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook messaging<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Outlook.com is basically a trendy web version of Outlook 2013.\u00a0 It gives that feel of Windows 8 and functions just like you would imagine.\u00a0 If you are familiar with Outlook, it is very easy to pick up and start using right away.\u00a0 Its integration of a calendar, messenger that can integrate with Facebook chat, contacts that can pull from Facebook or Twitter, and Skydrive online storage make it an all in one service.\u00a0 Perhaps that is why Google just integrated its Cloud storage solution, Google Drive, into Gmail. In the top left of the screen they have a drop down box that allows you to go into your calendar, skydrive, mail, or contacts.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 574px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/u0FEx.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"564\" height=\"304\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dropdown options allow you to easily switch between sections<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I did however run into some issues while using Outlook.com.\u00a0 Every few login attempts would fail, some emails were slow to arrive, and some went to junk when they shouldn\u2019t have.\u00a0 Minor issues, but definitely troublesome.\u00a0 With so many great options out there, Microsoft can\u2019t afford to make any mistakes if they want this to take off.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 573px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/t2Smo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"203\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Failed to Login<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What I Like:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Easy to use\/Familiarity for previous Outlook users<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Reading Pane allows you to preview messages without opening them<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Facebook chat integration<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Contact Imports from Facebook, Twitter, and other sources<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Skydrive integration<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Ability to change color schemes<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 734px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img class=\"  \" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/mT5DE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"724\" height=\"221\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Love the Reading Pane<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>What I Dislike:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Failing Login Attempts<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Slow to receive emails (sometimes)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Built in Calendar uses Hotmail (not rebuilt)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Previewing message took a couple minutes to load<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Doesn\u2019t allow you to drag and drop attachments into new messages<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/Z7mTF.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"193\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some Emails went to Junk when they Shouldn&#8217;t<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The verdict?\u00a0 It has some work to be perfect, and it has to be perfect to compete with a fantastic webmail client like Gmail.\u00a0 HTML5 support is a must, and increasing reliability and speed need to be a priority.\u00a0 Other than that, it is a good start, and it has potential.\u00a0 Have you tried the new Outlook.com? Let us know what you think!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven\u2019t heard, Microsoft has launched Outlook.com, a browser [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[508],"tags":[729,730,731,732,733,843,392,435],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}