Outlook Is Great When Coupled with Hotmail, Microsoft Says

With a number of more than 150 million active users at the moment, Microsoft Outlook is said to be the most popular email software in the world, which would make it fit to be coupled with another world's largest, namely with Hotmail, currently enjoying more than 350 million active users.

Microsoft has been hard at work with enhancing the experience that each of them has to offer, and is now claiming that the two would be able to deliver more than before when put together.

The teams behind the two have been working together lately to ensure that users benefit from a great connected experience, and that all is offered for free via the Outlook Hotmail Connector.

“We’re continuously improving the Connector based on the feedback we hear from you, our shared users,” Dick Craddock, group program manager, Hotmail, notes in a recent blog post.

Those who use Outlook on a daily basis and would like to have both their work and personal emails in the same place can now do so through the aforementioned Connector, Craddock explains.

“Our shared customers can use Hotmail as a free, personal cloud service for Outlook side by side with the Exchange-based or other email accounts they use for work,” he notes.

However, these are only some of the things that make Hotmail and Outlook seem like a great pair.

Some users who have been enjoying the benefits of having the two working together on their computers provided some details on what makes the experience so great:

- Both Outlook and Hotmail support flagging emails
- The option to right-click on a message to take actions like “reply,” “move,” “forward,” “mark as read,” “delete,” and more.
- Hotmail data can be easily synced to become available in outlook when offline
- Hotmail and Outlook both support multiple calendars
- Users can drag and drop email, appointments, and contacts
- Outlook rules can run on Hotmail messages
- Work and personal email can be easily kept separated
- Easy management of folders and subfolders
- Junk lists synchronization between Outlook and Hotmail in Outlook 2010.

Those who would like to give the Hotmail Outlook Connector a try will find it available for download from Softpedia as well, via this link. The process is simple, and you will be able to bring your Hotmail account to Outlook in no time.