New Hotmail is out! Outlook.com new domain

[eknirb]

Anyone else here using it?

Main problem for me---it signs me out after anything I do, if I use Chrome. Not on Firefox.

I also can't get TrueSwitch to work either.

 

[lrefra]

I cant see contacts of messenger online. Only for Facebook.

 

[boidsonly]

It will not work at all with Opera. Ads? ADS? Really? What are they thinking?

BTW, am I the only person in the world that cannot get his email from ATT.net/yahoo using Windows Live, Outlook 10 or my android phone email client?

I have been trying to figure it out for a week now. I'm about to throw in the towel and find another email client/provider.......

Update: Opera released version 12.01 which corrected the problem (as well as some other fixes). The email mysteriously started working again-imagine that. MS/ATT/Yahoo must have gotten it right for a short while. It will go back out not too long from now, like it has before....

 

[DustSailor]

Why I switched, and ease of switching to outlook.com
I switched to outlook.com only because I use Outlook 2010 (the real one). It is a shocking change, and perhaps too plain, but I kept it. Granted, I do not use it often due to owning Outlook 2010, as I've mentioned.

Didn't have to change a thing on Outlook 2010, it still syncs flawlessly with it. When I go to my hotmail, it automatically signs in to outlook.com, as I had it set up to do in hotmail.

More on Outlook 2010 and 2013 comparisons
I should also note that I do not plan to pay extra to 'upgrade' to outlook 2013. The appearance is far too 'white', but I'm sure the functionality has improved, if but slightly. I am playing around with the 2013 preview at the moment on another computer in order to compare. The reason I bring this up is because outlook.com was based off of outlook 2013.

Descriptions of outlook.com
Basically, this hotmail -> outlook is outlook 2013 with less functionality. Hotmail appears to be more user friendly (perhaps because I am used to it?). Some people enjoy the 'simplicity' of this basic outlook.com provider.

Grade sheet
I'd give outlook.com a B- score. Hotmail would get a B+. Outlook 2010 gets an A, and Outlook 2013 gets a B+

And here I thought they were expanding hotmail into one big giant email provider/calendar/everything location. Seems they are scaling back?

 

[kegobeer]

Anyone else here using it?

Main problem for me---it signs me out after anything I do, if I use Chrome. Not on Firefox.

I also can't get TrueSwitch to work either.

What do you mean by "anything I do"? I'm using Chrome and I'm switching between folders, reading emails, etc, and I'm not logged out.

 

[pparks1]

I've got way too much setup and working with gmail at this point to make a switch.

 

[eknirb]

Anyone else here using it?

Main problem for me---it signs me out after anything I do, if I use Chrome. Not on Firefox.

I also can't get TrueSwitch to work either.

What do you mean by "anything I do"? I'm using Chrome and I'm switching between folders, reading emails, etc, and I'm not logged out.

If I switch between folders- signed out. Refresh? Signed out. Delete email? Signed out. If I do ANY function, while in CHrome---gone.

Also messaging won't load...color schemes are blank.

 

[kegobeer]

I would make a new account on your computer and install Chrome under the new profile and see if things are different.

 

[eknirb]

I figured it out. It was a Chrome extension doing it.

It was checking for new Hotmail.

It should've presented no problem as my Hotmail and Outlook are combined.

IE, "Hotlook."

So if I can get Trueswitch to work...I am gone from Yahoo.

 

[kegobeer]

Shouldn't it work if you use Trueswitch to copy your Yahoo stuff to Hotmail? After all, the outlook.com address has access to all of the hotmail stuff, doesn't it?

 

[eknirb]

it does. won't work. 'cannot authenticate Hotmail acct.'

I need something to let me know when I get new mail, too.

 

[kegobeer]

You'd have to talk to Trueswitch about the errors with converting to hotmail/live mail.

 

[sablegsd]

it does. won't work. 'cannot authenticate Hotmail acct.'

I need something to let me know when I get new mail, too.

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