4. Edit A Document From Hotmail in Office Web Apps
Is Hotmail back and better than ever? It does have twice as many users than Gmail does and an uncluttered inbox, while making photos/videos easy.
Email is the new floppy disk. If you want to take your documents with you, most of us email them to ourselves. If you do that with an Office document on Hotmail, there’s a download link next to the thumbnail at the top of the message, but if you just click the thumbnail, it opens in the appropriate Office Web app automatically. That means you can read it–or edit the document–on any computer with a full browser, whether it has Office on it or not. This even works on smartphones (you can edit on Android phones and Windows Mobile with the Skyfire browser or view documents on iPhone or iPad).
If you make any changes to the document, when you close it Hotmail offers to automatically email you a link to the updated version. When you need to email a document, you can upload it to SkyDrive from inside the message and send a link so people can view and edit online instead of you having to combine the versions they mail back. Hotmail also makes it easy to find documents in your inbox with the Office docs Quick view.
Gmail does some of this, but it’s not as seamless. Since Microsoft announced the Office Web integration in Hotmail, Gmail has added the option to click a link to see the document in Google Docs and click again to edit or save it, but the viewer is very basic (not showing images and often using the wrong font face). Opening and saving a document in Google Docs can also often strip out more complex formatting, which the Office Web apps preserve faithfully.
And if you make any changes, you have to go back to the version on Google Docs to see them or remember to mail a copy or a link back to yourself. Hotmail just makes it easier.
Click the thumbnail, edit your document, and when you save it, this dialog lets you click to get a pre-written email with a link you can easily find and go back to.
Click an Office document in Gmail and Hotmail and you get very different views.
- 1. Block Unwanted Messages (Besides Spam)
- 2. View Photos and Videos Fast, Wherever They Are
- 3. Email Lots Of Photos Without Filling Up An Inbox
- 4. Edit A Document From Hotmail in Office Web Apps
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I've had my Gmail account for a while now, and loved it. I have to admit though I like the competition, perhaps I'll look into changing, it's good for us users and drives Big Brother corps like MSFT and Google to push the bar higher.
I am a Yahoo! mail user. I've been on Yahoo! mail since I think about 1994, so I have no desire to change. It still works very well for basic email purposes, but gosh, the competition is heating up. I kind of wish MS had successfully bought Yahoo! a couple of years back so that all this innovation could be landing in my inbox! If they get left any further behind, I may actually have to switch (but never to Google!).
I am a Yahoo! mail user. I've been on Yahoo! mail since I think about 1994, so I have no desire to change. It still works very well for basic email purposes, but gosh, the competition is heating up. I kind of wish MS had successfully bought Yahoo! a couple of years back so that all this innovation could be landing in my inbox! If they get left any further behind, I may actually have to switch (but never to Google!).
You have 1 post under your name, and look at your name. Sounds to me like you signed up to troll..
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Oh and I've always used Gmail since it came out, and I've always loved it. Something m$ has to give me in order for me to change to Hotmail: DEVELOPER PRIVELAGES!!! got those because I was an early google adopter. very useful for when wave came out at first: I get 100 invites, that all work RIGHT AWAY, instead of having to wait for a lifetime until my friends invite arrived.
These functions that are mentioned, don't bug me that it is what makes Hotmail better. I don't care for these kind of functions. Gmail works just fine. Maybe an article on "50 Ways Gmail Beats Hotmail".
1st point: Google Labs
2nd Point: customizable themes
3rd point: mailbox simplicity
4th point: archive for all mail
5th point: search function to find mail
Wow, I'm not sure 10GB is UNLIMITED sharing of photos. I believe it is technically limited sharing, to the tune of 10GB. Maybe my math is wrong though. Of course, that's assuming Microsoft doesn't just abandon SkyDrive like they do so many other things they decide to throw out there (if I recall in a recent article on online backup services, Microsoft had a service it hadn't updated since 2008?).
And I didn't realize it was safe to automatically load images linked to by emails these days. If I recall, that's a big way spammers validate your email address. Pre-loading Flickr would be nice (why isn't Yahoo! doing this), but I would want to set this to trusted sources only, not linking any image anyone sent to me.
Shipment tracking within Hotmail? Is opening the shippers website really that much of a hassle these days? For a while now, Yahoo! has detected shipment tracking numbers and offers a link directly to the tracking page of the shipper. I trust that more than I trust Microsoft to be retrieving this information. In fact, I think its technically illegal for Microsoft to be retrieving shipping information for packages that are not addressed to them, or that they didn't send. Certainly they must explicitly ask you if you want Hotmail to do this?
Good to see Microsoft advancing Hotmail, it was such crap for so long. I wonder if I even still have a Hotmail account, that was so many years ago I'm sure its long gone.
@hellwig With the spam question, you're thinking of images that are links, not attachments; the preview for image links only works with legitimate photosharing sites (and attachments) so you won't be loading the image from the spammers' site - if it were a spam message, you wouldn't give anything away by viewing the thumbnails either way.
Hotmail isn't indexing the shipping information for ads, like Gmail, or showwing the information to anyone but you so Microsoft believes acting as a proxy for you is legitimate; they partner with shipping services to develop this active view, they don't just scrape it from the site without permission - and it's very convenient (I just want it to work with a lot more services than USPS by launch).
(BTW, the 'unlimited' reference started out more like 'as many as you want' but that's just too long for the page! 200 50MB photos or 2,000 5MB photos are still a lot of photos ;-) )
Gmail's fine for me. That's where I redirect my domain mail to. If there are any good new features in Hotmail, I'm sure Gmail won't be far behind in, er, taking inspiration from them. I'm happy to wait.
Hotmail and Gmail do the same thing: email. sure they have side-orders of guacamole (archiving) in gmail and maybe a side-order of french fries (aka web ms office) in hotmail...
theyre both good.
this is sort of like the mac + pc argument...
PS: I prefer hotmail by 1%
I have both gmail and hotmail account, and the 2 accounts I signup with very high traffic mailling list (PHP , linux kernel, ubuntu, postfix .. etc) Total email on My mailbox is 150,000+.
Here is 10 ways gmail beat hotmail :
1. Gmail is way faster than hotmail. Gmail is very snappy and responsive.
2. Gmail search works. Hotmail just timed out whenever I did a search ( probably because of the number of emails I have )
3. Gmail message classification works. Hotmail sometimes did not classify message correctly ( again maybe because of the sheer amount of mail coming in )
4. Gmail spam blocker works better. I get 20 spam/week on hotmail, where I only get 1 or 2 spam on gmail.
5. Threaded conversation on gmail.
6. Gmail uses tagging instead of folder. Tagging is like folder but more advanced as you can classify a message into more than 1 tag.
7. You can share photos/video with picassa/youtube. Gmail is specifically for mail, picassa/youtube is is for sharing a photos/video. Both picassa & youtube integrated to gmail.
8. Gmail integrate nicely with Google map
9. Gmail comes with better contact management
10. Gmail task / calendar is way better than hotmail
One big problem with Hotmail is Microsoft's spam filter. Not the one you can set up yourself but the one Microsoft has imposed on Hotmail. Perfectly legitimate emails get blocked and there is absolutely nothing reasonable that you can do to unblock them. Unless this is fixed I recommend everybody I know to shy away from Hotmail unless they don't mind missing legitimate emails.
I personally use Gmail and and sticking with it atm. Gmail is better for use with email: faster loading, tags, better spam filter etc. Hotmail may have a more complete package with better support for pics, vids etc, but they are both email services. And at email Gmail is better. Gmail is the better email service.
Hotmail belongs to Microsoft. MS tried to enslave me into his mail many times. Frequently I had big difficulties avoiding MS "service".
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I avoid Hotmail by principle.
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MS is evil. No way as evil as apple, but evil anyways.
The only reason that I have hotmail is because I like MSN Live to chat with friends...
Don't use the email, oh and when I got my Xbox 360 I used it to sign up on XBL
Thats about it that I use hotmail for...
The rest, it's gmail all the way!
@nesto1000 you don't need hotmail to use MSN for chatting....
Hotmail trumps Gmail for me. I've had nothing but problems with Gmail ever since I relented and signed up for an account. Sluggish load times, piss-poor interface, disappearing labels, underwhelming spam protection. So now Hotmail continues to be my primary email account, while Gmail is relegated to official trash-collecting status.
As far as I'm concerned, any software product that is in beta status for five years should be avoided.
Many of the new feature of Hotmail don`t work if you don`t have windows.
Before comment a Web solution, test it on somne OS.
Don`t test only in windows. Windows is not the WEB.
@memo - what features aren't working for you? The slideshow uses Silverlight, which is available on the Mac, and there is a non-Silverlight version too; everything else works in the browser so should be the same on most OSes (although not all mobile browsers will support eg the slideshows).
yahoo mail 4-ever!!!!
You have 1 post under your name, and look at your name. Sounds to me like you signed up to troll..
Wow, calm down man. He just said that he uses Yahoo Mail and wishes the new stuff was on Yahoo too. What's the big deal with that?
Hotmail roks!!!