anyone else upgraded yet from hotmail? it says the upgrade will be automatically rolled out soon, so i took the option to upgrade straight away. wish i hadn't - it's crap. so slow & cumbersome, bring back normal hotmail
You can go back just now. Under the Tools icon there is an option to go back to Hotmail. Ultimately though you might have to go with it. Hopefully they will improve it before forcing everybody over.
Oh dear, sounds like yet another problem to have to grapple with.
To add insult to injury I see that Photobucket is forcing me and everyone else onto their new site on the 18th March. I did try this new site to post pics of a Meet a month or so ago. After struggling for hours all I managed was the Links codes in the Post, no pics.
they've removed the option to revert to the old hotmail now as well, so i'm stuck
i hate the look & feel of it too - it all feels a bit 'fisher price' to me. can't believe microsfot have released this rubbish without it being properly developed
That sounds like a pain. I've been a Hotmail users for years and think the current Hotmail is a decent enough effort for a free email service. My missus uses Yahoo and I think that's pretty rubbish by comparison.
Is the Outlook.com replacement supposed to make home email look like Outlook that 99% of us use at work?
I've had this offer recently as well, and have declined it every time, I hope I don't HAVE to upgrade it soon though, judging by the comments on here.........
I don't use Outlook at work. I use a better email system!
Seriously though I don't understand why anyone uses hotmail anyway. There are lots of better alternatives - gmail for example is always faster and with the various methods of access available - web, desktop client, ithingy and smartphone - it's more accessible than hotmail anyway.
My G Mail account kept requiring me to change my password as I think someone raided it regularly,and as I'm not that computer savvy, I use Hotmail instead now. :
If all else fails as I don't e mail much at all, I'll use the missus acc. that she has set up at the local library, and get her to oversee my muddling ways.:lol:
New versions of Outlook have recently been released with the same look and feel as Windows 8. Most companies won't have upgraded to the new versions yet. This new website gives you a similar appearance to these new versions.
The new fully installed versions such as Office 2013 have been out for a couple of months to businesses and home users whilst the new version of the streamed subscription based Office system, Office 365, has been out a few weeks for home users and very recently for businesses.
Hmmmm - can't say I'm Impressed, Al.....I've ignored the offers so far, too - and I don't like the look of that.......always viewed all my email on various accounts via Outlook Express, and that's been OK - I guess because I'm used to it......but I really don't like being "forced" to upgrade....
i'm still on xp too. the desktop in the other lounge which i hardly ever use is on vista, and it's crap. having said that, the pc itself is cheap rubbish so maybe it's not the vista that's crap. never tried windows 7, or 8
this new outlook.com thingy has got a little bit quicker in the last week or so, but i'm still not a fan
Vista is cr4p. 7 is very good, 8 is for young people with touchscreens and lots of mobile devices which synchronise for the enhancement of their social media delight - none of which apply to me because I am old and grumpy and will somebody help me and tell me how to make 8 look like 7 because it's doing my head in! :lol:
There are other people out there doing similar things. Stardock do a number of "fixes" when people "upgrade" operating systems and take useful features out. This their offering:
No worries mate, let us know how you get on with it.
Mrs C got a new Samsung laptop at the end of December with W8 on it and it took about 5 to 8 minutes to start which was a bit of a surprise based on everything I've read about W8. Having said that, 2 weeks ago it died and wouldn't boot up so is back with Samsung so I suspect it may have had problems right from the start.
We've been changed over to Outlook 365 at work. It seem really clunky to me, but it is actually an improvement on the old system - which says everything :lol:
anyone still struggling with this outlook.com nonsense?
i'm running it on a brand new windows 8 PC, monster 80mb broadband, and yet still it plumbs new depths of crapness every time i use it. aaaaaaaarghhh!!!!
Are you using the built in Windows 8 mail application or the Outlook.com Internet web page? The mail application should be better, but will still have the same look and feel of the web version.
Do you keep lots of messages in your inbox?
I prefer to use a proper copy of Outlook from Office which means that I can easily archive mail to personal folders on my network and keep only items that I need in my inbox.
i just use the online version, and keep my inbox & deleted items cleaned out quite regularly. i've got used to the fisher price look and feel of it all, but it's just so sloooooooow, and is prone to hanging far too often. to use a technical term, it's an ill thought-out pile of steaming faeces
You should get better performance using the inbuilt mail application which comes with Windows 8 although it will still have the same fisher price look.
I used it briefly with my Microsoft (hotmail/live/outlook) account and it seemed fine, although that's not my main account, only Microsoft send me emails using it.
it's off the scale crap today. taking 10 minutes to access my account an another 10 minutes of hanging skipping from one email to the next. what the hell have they done to it, hotmail was never like this
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