10 Reasons why to prefer Outlook.com as primary Email service.

When someone talks about emails, then obviously Gmail is the first name comes to everyone's mind. As Gmail is very reliable and great email service provided by Google. But, recently Microsoft announced modernizing the old Hotmail to Outlook.com and it provides some really advanced features. The one and the best thing about Outlook.com is that its interface is very Clean and simple. Its sidebars and title bars are simple, slim and clutter-free. There are some more cool and nice features in Outlook.com which are not provided in other major Email services. Today, I am going to discuss some of the nice features of Outlook.com which may make you feel about using Outlook as primary email service.

1. Larger work space for Emails:

Outlook.com provides a simple and clean Interface, that provides a larger work space for Emails. The sidebars are slim and free from untidy stuff. The Folders pane's width is re-sizable. By default, Reading pane is Off. In this mode, users see a list of all Emails on the interface. In other reading modes like- In case of Right, users will have a reading pane in the right side of interface. The width is re-sizable too. 

2. Multiple Emails aliases:

As most of you guys have Gmail accounts or Yahoo mail accounts. So, it could be a problem to use Outlook.com as primary Email as your friends and colleagues have your old Email ids. But Outlook provides creating multiple Email aliases, so that you can write Emails using your old Email address right from the inbox. As in my previous post, I have explained How to send Email from Outlook as Gmail's sender address. Even you can create new alias or you can use your old Gmail's or Yahoo's Email address to send mails within Outlook.

 

3. Chat with Facebook friends right from Outlook Inbox:

As Outlook.com is the modernize version of Hotmail. So it consist Live messenger's Facebook integrity. That is you can chat with you Facebook friends right from your Outlook's inbox. You don't need to install any messenger or plugin for this. Its as simple as chatting with your gmail contacts. Only thing you need to do is - Just provide authentication to the messenger application to access your Facebook profile.

4. Advertisement Free interface:

I just hate Ads inside my Email service. And of course, most of you don't like ads inside the mail program. Unlike Gmail and Yahoo where Ads appear in the sidebar, Outlook is free from Ads. There are no Ads in  Outlook's Inbox. So, You can enjoy Ad-free mailbox here. In this way you can save your bandwidth too.

5. Attachments for large files:

Sending attachments in an email is a common thing. But when you need to attach a large file to email, what to do then? Although Gmail has recently integrated Google Drive to send files upto 10GB in Gmail without leaving mailbox. But to use this feature, your files must be uploaded to Drive first.

As in case of Outlook, the service will decide if your file need to be uploaded to SkyDrive based on the file size which you are going to attach in the Outlook email. You can manually configure this feature too to always use SkyDrive to upload files in More Mail Setting >> Writing Mail >> Attachments section.

6. Create more Advanced Filters:

In Outlook you can create more advanced filters in terms of Rules. You can create filters based on the senders name or email address, the message’s subject text, have attachments or not. The particular matched messages can be moved to some folder, deleted, categorized, or can forwarded to another email address. To manage Rules, just go to Sweep >> Manage Rules.

7. Skype coming to Outlook soon:

According to Microsoft's News Center - Skype will be coming to Outlook.com soon, so people can video call Skype or Outlook friends, even if neither have the Skype client installed. It will be a great facility for the business professionals and for other users who use Skype for video chatting and video conferencing too.

8. Support for Keyboard shortcuts:

Outlook supports most of the Keyword shortcuts. And to use these shortcuts, you have to enable Keyword shortcuts from More Mail Settings >> Customizing Outlook >> Keyboard shortcuts. You can use multiple modes also, Like Gmail shortcuts mode, Yahoo shortcuts mode, or Outlook shortcuts mode.

9. Photo slideshow right from inbox:

If your friend mailed you some interesting photographs of some trips or hill station visit, then you can view the images in slideshow just in a single click and that too without downloading the images. As shown in below image from Microsoft's News Center.

10. View updates from Facebook and Twitter:

You can receive your public updates from Facebook and Twitter in the right pane of mailbox. You don't need to use extra plugin or anything else. Only thing you need to do is just enable Content from third party network feature. To do so, Go to More Mail Settings >> Reading Email >> Content from third party network. Just enable the feature by clicking Show public content from third-party networks then manage your permissions and you are all done. 
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