Gmail /Google mail is one of the toughest contender for Microsoft's email services. In the last few years, it has attracted millions of users and Microsoft’s Email service (Hotmail/Windows Live mail) was continuously loosing the ground. In order to rival this outstanding product from Google, Microsoft has recently completely revamped its Email service and released it in the form of Outlook.com, which still is in beta. The new outlook is simply great. Here we will compare in detail this new email service with Google’s Gmail.
1. User Interface
The new Outlook has an outstanding user interface. Based on Microsoft’s Modern UI ( previously metro UI) .It is neat, clean, intuitive, touch friendly as well as mouse friendly and is beautiful. You can choose from a variety of colors to match your taste. Gmail’s user interface is not bad too, but not great either. It is simple but not as simple as outlook, it looks good but not as beautiful as outlook and its not touch friendly. You can readily appreciate these differences by comparing image above with the one below.
Winner: Outlook.com
Storage and File attachments
Outlook.com gives you an unlimited amount of storage space. As your needs grow, your storage will grow. Gmail has a maximum limit of 10 GB storage. Outlook has a 100 Mb size limit for file attachments. When you connect your SkyDrive to your email, then the limit is 300 MB. Contrast, Gmail has a 25 MB size limit on file attachments.
Winner: Outlook
Spam Control
Gmail
Gmail lacks the ability to automatically recognize newsletter type emails, nor you can unsubscribe from them if the sender does not have an option to unsubscribe. However, you can add automatic filter words e.g. newsletter, unsubscribe, Facebook etc. Moreover you can not delete all messages from a specific sender with one click but you can search for messages from a specific sender, select them all and then delete them.
Outlook
You can either mark an email as Junk (sender will be marked as unsafe and message will be deleted) or a phishing scam (to report a spammer who asks for private information). In addition, an unsubscribe button is added to newsletter type emails (outlook recognizes newsletter type emails automatically) when the sender does not have one. Moreover, you can delete all messages from the same sender by one click. These features make it superior to Gmail in spam control features.
Winner: Outlook
POP/IMAP Support
Both services support POP. Hotmail’s POP can currently be used for Outlook.com and it works. Outlook also supports ActiveSync, so you can sync your email with an email client that supports ActiveSync. In contrast, Gmail has full IMAP/POP support which means you can sync your email with any client you want. So, Gmail is better in this regard.
Winner : Gmail
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