Are you using Outlook.com ?

[Shinobi]

Seems like Microsoft is trying to chuck out hotmail to outlook.com. Looks like they are trying to make it look like Windows 8.
I do like the integration with sky drive...

Any of you guys using it yet?

[YeOldeStonecat]

Last time I logged into my Windows account....I saw the option to upgrade...so I hit it.
I don't use this account for much, I pretty much live on my work e-mail...which we run our own Exchange Server.

For home users, the Live looks sorta neat....some more integration with LIVE features. Got a more Metro look.
No desire for the social media integration....I shut off my facebook and linked in many months ago.

[YARDofSTUF]

I still prefer using a client like Thunderbird.

[YeOldeStonecat]

I still prefer using a client like Thunderbird.

That'll probably work with it...if you insist on a fat client. Hardly see home users use fat e-mail clients anymore though....

[YARDofSTUF]

That'll probably work with it...if you insist on a fat client. Hardly see home users use fat e-mail clients anymore though....

Ya seems like everyone wants to access everything from within the browser these days.

[Faust]

Ya seems like everyone wants to access everything from within the browser these days.

Call me crazy, but I really hate that trend. Browsers leave way too many transparent mechanisms (to the casual user) open to the host. One of these days I'll get with the times and adapt to it, but until the I'm going to whine and moan and recommend a local client like Thunderbird (I love it's self-configuration... user just needs to know their damn user/pass as long as it's a known email provider). No more trying to tell remote company sales guys the path to configuse their email client in detail.

GET OFF MY LAWN!!

/waves cane

[blebs]

Call me crazy, but I really hate that trend. Browsers leave way too many transparent mechanisms (to the casual user) open to the host. One of these days I'll get with the times and adapt to it, but until the I'm going to whine and moan and recommend a local client like Thunderbird (I love it's self-configuration... user just needs to know their damn user/pass as long as it's a known email provider). No more trying to tell remote company sales guys the path to configuse their email client in detail.

GET OFF MY LAWN!!

/waves cane

[YeOldeStonecat]

Call me crazy, but I really hate that trend. Browsers leave way too many transparent mechanisms (to the casual user) open to the host. One of these days I'll get with the times and adapt to it, but until the I'm going to whine and moan and recommend a local client like Thunderbird (I love it's self-configuration... user just needs to know their damn user/pass as long as it's a known email provider). No more trying to tell remote company sales guys the path to configuse their email client in detail.

Most e-mail clients auto configure these days, it's a sorta new standard called "Autodiscover" that we setup on mail servers with DNS records and certificates.

POP3 is slowly going away these days, with more and more people checking their e-mail across several different devices...it's nice to be able to see your entire inbox from several sources and see the same mail. IMAP started replacing POP to get around that part. But keeping e-mail inbox databases "in the cloud"...and not on local computers, is a nice feature. No need to deal with transferring e-mail when it comes time for a new computer.

[Easto]

I have to agree with Faust. Over the years I've really gotten use to using Outlook. I know that many of the different browswer email sites (all the major ones) are adding more features all the time but I always find myself having to look too hard to find what I want in them. Again, I've just grown familiar with Outlook, I know where everything is and how to use it. It seems that when I look at my Yahoo or MSN email page (I don't use them for email) there's always one or two features that I wish they had or at least made them a little more user friendly.

I really have no reason to check my emails when I'm out and about. My work furnishes me and an Android phone and the only email account I've configured it with is my work account. I can wait until I get home to see what my friends or family want to say to me.

[Easto]

I'd also like to add... one reason I can't stand Yahoo, MSN etc is the ads that keep flashing in the right-hand pane. That's enough to keep me away.