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Microsofts Hotmail email service has been a good and reliable email service. But over the years it interface become a reminder of the cluttered old web interfaces of the past. The last update to Hotmail tried to correct this, but it did not work out too well.

But little by little, the new Microsoft Metro interface which first made its appearance in Windows phones and is now moving over to tablets and personal computers is also making its way to Microsoft web services.

I do not think anyone is going to complain about Metro on the web. I has a Google like minimalist feel to it.

If you already have a Hotmail or Windows Live account, you do not need to sign up for a new address to use the new interface. Just go to the setting menu and select upgrade to outlook. You can also get a new @outlook email address. Your older email address will continue to be active unless you  decide to deactivate it yourself, and you can get email from both addresses in the same Inbox or separate folders.

Lets hope SkyDrive gets the same Metro Treatment soon.

Last year in July Microsoft announced that the successor to the hotmail email service which is outlook.com. Additionally with the introduction of outlook.com it became my main email due to the very nice design of the page and the fact that i can finally have my name on the email without numbers of special character. A few months after they released an android app which immediately got bad review due to the design which is identical to the hotmail app. Well this is a truly funny and weird story, yesterday night just before i head to sleep i decided to install the outlook app for android because my i have not done it yet due to the very bad design of the first iteration of the app by Microsoft. So i installed the app and signed in and at the first glance i noticed that the splash screen has changed but i did not realize the there is a new UI because on the app page the screenshots are still pointed at the new design. After passing through the sync settings etc i jumped into the app and i was shocked about the new design of the app. Then this morning i received an email from the outlook team about the new design of the android app. It its pretty weird that the screenshots were not updated though. Overall i really enjoy using this app and the app is as good as the android Gmail app. Well this app has just been updated so the ratings of the app is still very low.

• Outlook.com App For Android

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