There's a lot of good stuff in Google's major Gmail.com update. These include high-priority notifications, confidential mode, and better offline support. The bad news is many of the best features aren't here yet. Here's what you can put to work now.
Smart Reply is a feature that's been available in the www.Gmail.com mobile version since 2017. Smart Reply works by using Google machine learning to suggest three responses to your emails. You can ignore them, pick one and hit send, or choose one and add additional text. The more you use it, the better the suggestions you'll get. These tend to be generic replies such as "Thanks!" or "I'm working on it now". It's not much, but sometimes all you need is a quick, pithy reply. Another new option is to snooze emails. This is another feature that Google has shown off before, having first appeared in the Google Inbox mobile app. With it, you can set a message so that it pops up later when you have time to deal with it. This isn't just ignoring a message -- you and I can both do that without any help. Instead it hides the message in the "Snoozed" inbox until you're ready to deal with it. The message will return at the time designated when you snoozed it. Your default choices are tomorrow, next weekend, next week, or you can pick a specific time for it to pop up again. You can also choose to snooze until "someday", which means it's shoved into the Snooze mail box until you get around to looking at it again. You can snooze a message from the message view panel or from the inbox. In either case, you select the snooze icon, which looks like a tiny analog clock face.
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Hotmail was a web-based email service from Microsoft. Launched in 1996 by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith, Hotmail became one of the first free web-based email services, allowing people to access online inboxes from any location. The name "Hotmail" was decided upon because it includes the letters “HTML,” a common programming markup language used when creating web pages. To showcase this, the name of the service was originally styled as “HoTMaiL.” In 1997, Hotmail was acquired by Microsoft and became part of the Microsoft Service Network portal as MSN Hotmail.com. In 2006 and 2007, after competitors like Gmail and Yahoo Mail entered the picture, Microsoft released a new and improved Hotmail as part of Windows Live. Windows Live www.Hotmail.com was continually upgraded until Microsoft released the final version in 2011. And in 2013 the service was replaced by Outlook.com, which currently offers email, contact, task, and calendar-managing services available in 106 languages.
Outlook.com officially launched Tuesday, marking the demise of its predecessor, Hotmail. Nearly seven months after unveiling a preview of the email service last July, Microsoft announced the end of its beta run in a blog post. Microsoft, which acquired Hotmail in 1997, said it will switch users to the new service "soon," but won't force them to change their emails to an "outlook.com" address. It added that all users should expect to see the change take place by this summer. "Everything from their @hotmail.com email address, password, messages, folders, contacts, rules, vacation replies, etc. will stay the same, with no disruption in service." The software giant also revealed that over 60 million people are actively using Outlook.com. |
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