Last summer, we have published a preview of the Outlook.com, a new modern e-Mail service from Microsoft. Since then we have been humiliated by the fast pace of the adoption with more than 60 million people, who are already actively using Outlook.com. During the same period, we have received lots of feedback and made many improvements. Today, we are glad to announce the next step in this journey: Outlook.com comes from preview and people everywhere can get started and try it at Outlook.com.
Today is an important milestone in our mission to provide the world's best email experience, people everywhere. See also, the starting point for a comprehensive marketing efforts around the world to show us that will Outlook.com you can get. And because we are sure that we start Outlook.com that is available and ready for 1 billion people scaled, best email service for consumers to update soon hundreds of millions of Hotmail users on the new experience of Outlook.com.
When we launched the preview, languages about Outlook.com as fat progress from scratch to build a new e-Mail service from the data center on the usability and everything in between. Now more than ever email plays a decisive role in how things to do it. Therefore, Outlook.com as focus developed removing barriers and people, the email service:
Deliver a beautiful, combined fresh and intuitive interface to modern browsers and DevicesKeeping she really a people to their friends and colleagues about the networks UseProviding intelligent and powerful to Inbox today's mail program must be to inform people, including SkyDrive for virtually everything in a single email putting in the control by their privacy to prioritize.As part of the preview, we wanted to have also a call and make sure that we build the e-Mail service, what you really wanted the. Our aim was to learn from feedback that scale Outlook.com according to experience to optimize and make sure that we could, to deliver on our vision of a new modern-e-mail for 1 billion inboxes.
It was slightly more than 6 months since he released Outlook.com preview and reception which has to date significantly exceeded our expectations; more than 60 million people, already actively using the Outlook.com. This number stands for people, the in several times in the month via the Web to sign client or Smartphone to use our service.
The preview we have listened and learned a lot about your favorite features and how well Outlook.com on our vision for modern email deliver. Millions of people are, for example, Outlook.com with Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn currently on their friends contact info, updates, photos and tweets link. And quite a few people have expressed appreciation that Outlook.com replaces advertising with the latest updates from Facebook or Twitter if you read email from one of your contacts are. In fact the average 60% saw people show less if you use Outlook.com, because they get much more relevant updates from their friends.
Outlook.com of tools for the treatment of newsletters and promotional E-mail sends less than 80% of the typical Inbox make out, are another set of features well preserved and busy. Outlook.com comes with swing, a simple but powerful function, people clean up their Inbox move, archive, or delete e-mail (and that this happens automatically in the future) will help when they want to. It's a very satisfying feeling when you regain control, once you are hundreds or even thousands of messages from the Inbox to sweep.
Outlook.com is also supposed to hundreds of photos, videos, and everything people want in a single brh make it simple-to send all powered by SkyDrive. SkyDrive have used almost half of the people with Outlook.com already more than half a billion photos and Office documents.
We're very excited by the adoption of the preview and how it delivers on our promise of a fresh, new e-Mail service since. In the preview we see an enormous amount of, how people used the service. "Early Adopters" have told us what they liked, what they want to see next, and what we do, so that more people had to change. And we add the new features and optimize the services scale used. Now that Outlook.com from Preview comes, we will be kicking off a tremendous boost in several countries the world, even greater awareness and adoption of Outlook.com. Our goal is to make the new and compelling features of Outlook.com everywhere aware and make it easy for them to Outlook.com as a new e-Mail service to try.
When we say we are confident that Outlook.com is the best e-Mail option for consumers, we mean it. Outlook.com comes out as a preview, we also announce that we soon all Hotmail users on Outlook.com upgrade. The upgrade is seamless and immediate for people who use Hotmail. Everything from your @hotmail.com email address, password, messages, folders, contacts, rules, OOF, etc., without interruption in the service remains unchanged. When upgraded, they get everything, what the benefits of the redesigned Outlook.com erfahren-- a fresh, intuitive user interface, many new features and better performance. And we won't always make your e-Mail address in a @outlook.com-address switch, if you do not want.
We expect that all of the people that are updated with Hotmail this summer. And for who the new advantages of the Outlook.com experience are encouraged, there is no need to wait. Today can be the application simply updated in the Outlook.com and we'll take care of the rest.
We want to thank the more than 60 million of you, the already Outlook.com active. We sincerely appreciate the feedback you have sent to us and you have played the valuable role to make happen to today's news. Of course, there is much more to come, but for those of you who have been waiting to try it, now is your chance. Outlook.com is from the preview, and it's a good time to update. We are looking forward to your opinion.
--David Law, head of product management, Outlook.com
