Outlook: a new email service from Microsoft

Microsoft launched a preview version of a brand new mail service from a completely unoriginal name Outlook, Which will replace the familiar to many Hotmail. Naturally, the product received a Metro-style interface and a set of extremely useful and relevant to such service functions. If for any reason you want to give up the most perfect at the moment Gmail service, but still you could not find a worthwhile alternative, Outlook may well be it.

The service interface is very simple and minimalistic. If Microsoft were trying to eliminate as much as possible distractions for the user in the process of working with e-mail, they have a very well turned out. When you open a message opens Gmail-like interface allows you to perform all relevant actions with letters. Among the familiar functions are present here an opportunity to organize emails into different categories using labels, Advanced search using a filter system, as well as their own keyboard shortcuts, allowing to work with mail without mouse. If retrained for new keyboard shortcuts do not want, you can quickly switch to Gmail layout.

Now about functions that other postal services can not boast. By default, Outlook can cling pictures and information about your contacts from Facebook and Twitter, which eliminates the need to manually edit the stale data. More in Outlook clever and unobtrusive advertising that does not distract at correspondence.

For those who inexplicably does not use keyboard shortcuts, it provides the function of fast action letters, accelerating the implementation of the most frequent actions with letters (reply, delete, forward, and so on). The list of actions that appear when working with a letter, user-configurable.

Another cool feature Outlook was to help the user in fighting newsletters. When you receive another very lucrative offers Outlook automatically appends a button "Unsubscribe", even if the letter itself does not contain such a reference. When you click on it a smart service tries himself to unsubscribe you from this mailing list, and in case of failure, just blocks continue to receive emails from this address. In addition, the Outlook has a built-in viewer Ofiice and document images.

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