Microsoft Refurbished Hotmail as Newmail – A rival to Gmail

Microsoft, the giant software company hopes to bring back millions of users and hence the company has refurbished the Hotmail. Well, Hotmail has a somewhere or the other resembles Gmail in terms of design. The new and latest Newmail is believed to have an amazing and stunning look with clean graphics and its fonts in inbox resembles to Google adversary. The details of the Newmail are discussed below in details.

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Microsoft claims the Newmail having a ‘fluid and interactive design’ as its is specifically designed for mobile devices such as phones and tablet PCs. Still, the largest email provider in the globe is the Hotmail and has about 360 million users while Google had 260 million users in the month October last year and has now boosted up to 350 million. The home screen of the Newmail is well designed and attractive and this Newmail will be made available in terms of an opt-in basis to the present Hotmail users. Microsoft has made no rules to make it compulsory for the coming future.

This new service is to be linked to Facebook and Twitter and hence will enable the users to view the updates of their friends and keep contact automatically. Newmail will be the new name but the users will be having the @hotmail email addresses. The users migrated to the Gmail after its launch in the year 2004 because the website was easy to access and was faster in process. Some users were off saying the site was too dense and claimed to put things as it was before.

This change and difference is not likely to be noticed by many and most users claim still not to use the service and the reasons for the low preference of the Newmail can be acknowledged from the screenshot. In comparison with the Gmail, many users wished it was named after the @newmail address instead of the @hotmail.com address which is commonly in use with the @aol.com and some users also commented saying “Looks almost as boring and uninspiring as Gmail.”

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