{"id":3890,"date":"2012-08-02T14:40:05","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T12:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/?p=3890"},"modified":"2012-08-02T14:40:05","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T12:40:05","slug":"hotmail-changes-to-outlook-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/hotmail-changes-to-outlook-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotmail changes to Outlook.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/search\/?search=Microsoft\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft<\/a> unveil an updated version of their public email product called Hotmail. If you are a child of the Internet, then you most probably have a hotmail email address or previously had one. Let\u2019s be blunt for a moment: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/search\/?search=email\" target=\"_blank\">email<\/a> is the one thing that is making everyone miserable. No matter your email client or whether you access your email via a smartphone, the process is pretty labour intensive.\u00a0 You, see email in inbox, open email and then either respond to it or delete it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/search\/?search=Microsoft\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft<\/a>, as crazy as this may seem, are slowly reverting to the &#8220;Gates era&#8221; Microsoft. Steve Ballmer is not everyone&#8217;s cup of tea but they have made some very clever acquisitions. Skype will be a great addition to their Xbox platform and I would not be surprised if we see it in some form inside Outlook.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yes, they are also <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/2012\/07\/office-in-the-cloud\/\" target=\"_blank\">headed to the cloud<\/a> with their productivity suite called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/search\/?search=Microsoft+Office\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft Office<\/a>. The name change may seem to be irrelevant but I think it is genius. Suddenly, their popular email client will be getting a lot more word of mouth and marketing spend. I also believe the timing of this announcement is no accident. Google\u2019s product (gmail) is slowly grinding to a halt and if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/offers\/11578345\/Microsoft+Outlook+2010\/\" target=\"_blank\">Outlook.com<\/a> wins then I can see a lot more users heading to Microsoft&#8217;s offering.<\/p>\n<p>Who said email is boring?\u00a0 The big technology companies are fighting to get users using their email products which leads to a very interesting period ahead for users.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/Outlook.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3891\" title=\"Outlook\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/Outlook.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week saw Microsoft unveil an updated version of their public email product called Hotmail. If you are a child of the Internet, then you most probably have a hotmail email address or previously had one. Let\u2019s be blunt for a moment: email is the one thing that is making everyone miserable. No matter your<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"\/blog\/hotmail-changes-to-outlook-com\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"amp_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[337,619],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3890"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}