Microsoft has launched a new web mail service Outlook.com. Chris Jones, Microsoft's corporate vice president of Windows Live services, said that Outlook.com is available to users in preview form from today. "It offers the first major improvement to cloud mail in eight years," he said. "We think the time is right to re-imagine personal email, from the datacenter to the user experience."
The lighter and simple User interface makes it amazing. The new email service comes with "virtually unlimited" storage and integrates Skype. Navigation through the menus and tools are very easy, surprisingly you could not see a single piece of advertisement as you see on other mail service providers.
Currently all Hotmail or Microsoft Live users can log into Outlook.com using their existing ids. "Hotmail users can upgrade to Outlook.com and will get the new user experience but will continue to send/receive mail from their @hotmail.com address. Hotmail users that upgrade will use the same username/password to login; all their mail, contacts, and calendar items will still be available in the new user interface.
Currently you will see Outlook.com as a front end for their Hotmail.com but later Hotmail.com will be disappeared. Undoubtedly it will become the best mail service offered.