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[cahomsy]

Sorry I choose Outlook. It's how I got to this article. I get PCWorld emails through both and the outlook page works this morning and the gmail account is just sitting there not responding to anything. So for basic functionality Outlook beats the crap out of Gmail. WINNER MICROSOFT!

[amozhi]

Simply GMail wins for me...

Outlook:
It does not support to view or download attachments on mobile. This is the only reason I am slowly migrating from outlook.com to my GMail.

I subscribed all my bills to outlook.com and I could not open by bills for mobile payment.

Oulook will continue to loose users

GMail:
Simply amazing...rather I would say WOW...

I live in Switzerland and I am using ebay.ch. The communication happens in German and I recieve those mails in my GMail account.

GMail has an in mail translation and simply translates to English...Wowwww...I don't need to copy paste in translation website

Many GMail features not covered in this report...

[PCTree]

Love my Skydrive when it works and especially when it doesn't freeze up my laptop and require removal and reinstalation of the Silverlight program .

[marke123]

One thing not looked at in this article is service and support for mail delivery issues.

For example: If you someone find that your mail host server cannot deliver email to MS / HotMail / Outlook.com then you have to of course request that MS review the blacklisting and remove inaccurate records. Trying to get that done is next to impossible due to the MS way of acting extremely draconians and marginally communicative.

On the other hand, Google is more flexible and cooperative on this issue, probably due to their confidence in their spam filtering technology.

So - mail flow problems are far less likely to occur when using Gmail.

This I know from experience.

[JonathonWaterman]

Let's just see how much one likes Outlook - or any of Microsoft's service when inside your email you include something that violates what will soon be Microsoft Services new Term Of Service agreement and suddenly you discover that because of something as insignificant as a profane word, your file/email/etc has been deleted or your account was canceled.

[mrdr]

The only thing that I like about Outlook . com is the ability to create folders to organize emails, I've never liked or gotten used to the Gmail label system.
Outlook.com still has to prove itself as more than hotmail in new clothes.
For now I'll test it out with some non-essential email subscriptions. Personally my favourite email account is gmx.com

[SansOmniscient]

Outlook.com only supports POP??? This is 2012 isn't it? I wasn't aware people even used POP services since, like a decade ago. But coming from a company that still thinks it's Internet Explorer browser is the cat's meow, I'm not surprised. Time for MS to go back to it's roots and try to innovate, rather then copy using decades old technologies.

[ScaredWitless9903]

Privacy: We know Google reads all the email, compiles links among people, and serves ads. MS has been much more opaque about how much personal info they are saving and to whom they sell data (or give to "partners"). Any review of any Cloud service needs to provide information about privacy. My personal score is zero for Microsoft and one for Google and 100 desired.

[mrb186]

I've used Gmail from the time it was in Beta and it has some great features (and I won't be giving it up any time soon). But ya know what? When I have to recommend a good web mail service to senior citizens or non-tech folks, I hesitate with Gmail. The user interface is just too geeky. Ask any non-tech person to find their contact list and I think you see what I mean. It is NOT a clean, intuitive setup. MS Live mail is pretty good and this new Outlook interface looks very nice. Thank God you can create an '@live' address instead of that absurd '@hotmail' choice!

[blamblam]

"And speaking of storage, Gmail gives you just 10MB, while Microsoft promises an unlimited inbox."

Gmail provides 10GB of mail storage, not 10MB. Even though it's not unlimited, it's a stinkin' huge amount.

I'm a heavy Gmail user, using one account with multiple others forwarding in since 2005, still only using 3.3 of my 10GB after 7 years.

[astro46]

i just started to set an outlook.com account, to try it. I cancelled. It didn't like anything i entered. i didn't want to give it (or make up something that it will then display as real) my name, birthdate, gender, phone number, alternate email address, and it didn't like my password because 8, mixing letters and numbers and characters, wasn't enough for it (even though it asks for 8). it wanted it longer.

never mind.

[WmKTrtt]

So far, I like Outlook.com.mainly because of the organization.

Now, I want to ask Rick if he would do an article similar to this but comparing Outlook.com to Yahoo, if possible.

[itsmeathar]

Until 2003 I think most of us were too obsessed with either Hotmail or Yahoo but then the whole buzz of Gmail started and it took off really well from there. But with Outlook, MS just bounced back strong. But of the two I would still prefer Gmail because of its superior security.

[stephaneJacob]

a few week ago a received a invitation to get a new Outlook e-mail. I did.
i have never give this new e-mail to any one.. no one have it , no web site ..
guess what? i am already receiving Spam.... never used it.
I love G-Mail....

[dubyadd]

Outlook really is stinko, bigtime!!!!!!! Over half our staff say it crashes their PC, or just doesn't work at all. So we all just now use Gmail

[talhamid]

Who says Gmail is ugly? Its functional. To me it looks pretty cool. Also, as said elsewhere in comments, many Gmail features have been missed.

[ChrisBraum]

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Outlook.com only supports POP??? This is 2012 isn't it? I wasn't aware people even used POP services since, like a decade ago. But coming from a company that still thinks it's Internet Explorer browser is the cat's meow, I'm not surprised. Time for MS to go back to it's roots and try to innovate, rather then copy using decades old technologies.

Not true! I have my Desktop, laptop and smartphone synced. Outlook.com does support IMAP.

[ChrisBraum]

I can't comment on gMail as I have never used it. But to say Outlook.com does not support IMAP is incorrect. I keep my desktop, laptop and smartphone in sync without any hassle.

[vikastwittes]

I think outlook is most famous among businesses but as we seen recent updates of Google apps is going to give tough competition to outlook. Like a search engine it may become most parable email hosting type