Outlook.com: Hotmail users will have to move

Farewell Hotmail, welcome to Outlook.com! Seven months subsequent to propelling its beta variant , Microsoft's new web based informing administration is authoritatively propelled this Tuesday, February nineteenth. Having just vanquished 60 million dynamic clients around the world, as indicated by its distributer (33% of whom would not be Hotmail clients), Outlook.com needs to win. What's more, brisk.

For this, Microsoft has chosen to relocate its 300 million Hotmail clients (14 million in France, as indicated by Médiamétrie NetRatings) to Outlook.com. "All will keep their email address, their secret word, their contact. One morning, they will associate with their administration and find another interface adjusted to new uses, for example, counseling from a tablet or portable, "consoles Benoît Roumagère, Marketing Manager Hotmail and Skydrive . Amazement on get ... In the interim, the firm of Redmond will even now have sent them messages to introduce the new mail that is Microsoft that Gmail is Google , or what iCloud is Apple .

500 million archives put away

In any case, the task will keep running at the pace: "It should take around four months," says Benedict Roumagère, who depends on the effortlessness of Outlook.com or publicizing decreased by 70% contrasted with Hotmail to complete persuade its clients. Indeed, Microsoft appears to have changed its tune. Last December, the distributer demonstrated at 20 minutes that the clients of Hotmail could come back to their mail if their trial of Outlook.com did not fulfill them ...

Until further notice, and as indicated by a Microsoft review, 98% of the primary clients of Outlook.com would not wish to down. They would especially welcome the aggregate intelligence of the informing with Skydrive , the storage room on the cloud open in two ticks from Outlook. 25 million individuals have just put away somewhere in the range of 500 million photographs and reports through it.