Is Cloud-based OUTLOOK email from Microsoft a worthy alternative to GMAIL?

Microsoft provider of Hotmail.com, Live.com, Skype and the excellent SkyDrive online storage service, rolled out OUTLOOK.com yesterday.

You can sign up for a free account here

It’s a peek into how the new Microsoft Office and Windows 8 will look like with an almost flat and tiled two dimensional interface called Metro.

Users of Phones running the Windows Phone OS will be already familiar with it. It’s simple and uncluttered.

If your’e interested in adding it to you iDevice like an iPhone or iPad,

Just go to SETTINGS then to MAIL, CONTACTS and CALENDARS and then ADD ACCOUNT…

From among the choices you can either choose HOTMAIL or MICROSOFT EXCHANGE.

Just remember if you choose to configure your new OUTLOOK.com account as an EXCHANGE account on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, the entry for the Server field should be,

m.hotmail.com

One more email account to keep track of then 🙂… Read the rest