But what is the difference between Hotmail and Outlook? Let’s find out… "We offer some great services but we don't have an umbrella concept like Windows Live was before.Hotmail is used by around half a billion people globally, second only to Google’s Gmail. The Windows Live name is going away as well although you'll see lots of references to using a Microsoft account to sign in across Windows, Windows Phone, Xbox and Office 2013, that's not the replacement Hall says. I would imaging we would upgrade the Hotmail base to outlook sometime in the next year but we're not putting a timeframe on it specifically right now." "We have no plans for a long protracted beta or preview. He doesn't put a date on updating the calendar or on when Microsoft will stop letting you get a new Hotmail address and send everyone to instead. "It's one of the reasons we're referring to as a preview," Hall confides. Next is an update to the Hotmail calendar, which has neither the name nor the look of ." First comes "a beautiful new user interface for SkyDrive that we'll release in the next month". SkyDrive gets an update to match Outlook in weeks, Microsoft hasn't set a date for Hotmail Calendar Updating the calendarĮventually, the Hotmail name will disappear completely.
"We've taken that technology, improved it with some special sauce that now has been rolled into Outlook and we're pretty confident we have good spam protection."
If you look at the spam filters that we have today, that we use and tune through Exchange and Hotmail as of February we were reviewed as having the best spam protection of any email service. "In 2006, 2007, Hotmail had some challenges with spam. "Certainly we have had some issues with spam" he admits readily. But then there's a bunch of stuff that's new." An issue of reputation?Īlthough Hall doesn't say so, one reason for the name change could be that Hotmail's reputation still suffered from old problems that are long fixed. "Some of the stuff in the releases over the last year including graymail tools, shipping updates, notifications, photo slide shows and the like, aliases as a technology… If we thought something was really good in Hotmail we didn't shy away from moving that forward. That sounds very like a feature we liked in Hotmail? "We took all the features we knew people really liked forward to ," agrees Hall.
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