Cloud Computing: Outlook.com Goes Past 400 Million Users
May 4, 2013
Grazed from Technorati. Author: Adi Gaskell.
It doesn’t seem that long ago that Microsoft announced the demise of webmail stalwart Hotmail. The plan was to migrate users over to a new Outlook.com service. Microsoft announced this week that the migration was completed yesterday and that 400 million people are now active users of the new service. They went on to say that 150 petabytes of email data was migrated as part of the transition in the past six weeks alone.
The company also revealed that it will be adding a couple of new features to Outlook.com. The first is called SMTP Send, which will make it easier to send mail from different email accounts. The second is a much better and deeper integration with SkyDrive…
The new SMTP Send service will make it much easier and faster to send emails from an alias account. Recipients will no longer see a message telling them it was sent on behalf of the alias account. SkyDrive integration will make it much easier to insert files and photos directly into emails from SkyDrive…
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