Outlook Email

Gmail and Yahoo mail now have a competitor to their email services and that is Outlook.com. A modern, free cloud email service that comes from the house of Microsoft, Outlook.com has a fresh look and appeal. The service has some very new and interesting features not found with other email service providers. Outlook.com allows you to connect to the popular social networking platforms like Twitter and Facebook while also helping in keeping the personal data safe and secure.

Features of Outlook Email

There are several features that make Outlook email better than the competitors like Gmail and Yahoo. The first of these features is the clutter free inbox that has an intuitive design. The inbox handles spam effectively. It has automated tools that keep out the nagging daily deal messages and irrelevant newsletters from disturbing you while checking the inbox.

Updated Contacts

The best thing about Outlook email is that it keeps your list of contacts updated. It automatically updates the address book with all the contacts at Facebook, Twitter and other websites.

Office and SkyDrive

The Outlook email service provides free Office applications like Word, Excel and PowerPoint. These web apps are built in with Outlook and along with this, users get 7 GB free cloud storage, which allows the users to share videos, photos and other files without having to worry about large attachments.

Comparison of Outlook Email with Gmail and Hotmail

The Outlook email service can be compared with the most popular email service, the Gmail and with the Hotmail service for those that choose to upgrade.

Security and Privacy: Outlook email provides similar security and privacy as it keeps the spam percent to less than 3% which is also the case with Gmail and Hotmail. It also turns on SSL by default which is present in Gmail but not in Hotmail.

Inbox: Outlook email service provides a newly designed inbox that has several features that help in using the service easily. The storage space provided is virtually unlimited which is not the case with Gmail. It allows the users to share, view and edit documents created on Office by using the Office web apps. This again is not possible with Gmail. It is also not possible to send photo slide shows from the Gmail inbox while this can be done through Outlook and Hotmail.

Organizational Tools: Outlook email provides certain organizational tools like creating aliases, organizing the inbox, auto categorizing the newsletters, flagging important messages, creating time-based rules and searching. While some features are available in Gmail, others are not, making Outlook email a better option.

Connect: While Outlook email lets the users connect with others on social media platforms, Gmail does not allows this.