01-27-2005, 12:00 AM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
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Microsoft Launches "Office Outlook Live" Hotmail Integration
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/jan05/01-20OutlookLive2005PR.asp
"Outlook Live connects MSN Hotmail, the world's largest free Web-based e-mail service with 187 million accounts worldwide, with the advanced e-mail tools of Microsoft Office Outlook, providing customers with a way to more efficiently manage their lives. This is the first Microsoft Office product to be made available as a downloadable subscription service. With Outlook Live, customers can now view and manage all their personal information -- e-mail accounts, contacts and calendars -- in one convenient place, from virtually anywhere."
You will get Outlook 2003 for your $44.95 introductory annual price. The price jumps to $59.95 on April 19, 2005. Outlook 2003 makes a fantastic email client and worth the upgrade price alone. If you already have a hotmail account, this price may be a better deal than an Outlook upgrade and you get Hotmail integration to boot.
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01-27-2005, 12:17 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 181
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Re: Microsoft Launches "Office Outlook Live" Hotmail Integration
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Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry
You will get Outlook 2003 for your $44.95 introductory annual price. The price jumps to $59.95 on April 1, 2005.
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I think I'll stick to Gmail...  It seems to me that they're trying to lure people in with Outlook 2003, but with Gmail there (OH YEAH 1GB for free!!!), I'm OK with sticking to Outlook XP.
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01-27-2005, 12:36 AM
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Pupil
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 22
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Re: Microsoft Launches "Office Outlook Live" Hotmail Integration
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Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry
You will get Outlook 2003 for your $44.95 introductory annual price. The price jumps to $59.95 on April 1, 2005.
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I think you made a typo...it lasts til April 19th, 2005, not the 1st.
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01-27-2005, 12:48 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Dec 2003
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If they dropped the price and took away the copy of outlook 2003 I might think about it. I can see this funcationality being worth paying for for like 10 bucks for syncing purposes. I know most of it will be the cost of overhead but for us "techies" that only need a bit of info and the switch flipped to allow us to use it 44.95 is a bit steep.
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01-27-2005, 02:01 AM
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Oracle
Join Date: Aug 2006
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I saw this before too. Honestly, I'm not sure how attractive the Outlook-as-a-subscription model will be to Pocket PC users, who would already have a copy of the latest Outlook bundled with their PPC 
The Hotmail integration of Outlook Live seems identical to the Outlook Connector feature that's exclusive to the $10/month MSN Premium subscription. Too bad there's no such integration offered as a low-cost stand-alone service for users who already have Outlook...
At $60 annually for Outlook Llive, some users may be tempted to jump to a full hosted Exchange subscription (which also provides free copy of Outlook).
Granted, most Exchange hosting providers today seem to start at $120/year for 100-200MB mailbox storage (less than the 2GB Hotmail storage provided with Outlook Live). But 1and1's Exchange hosting for example is priced at $84/year and gives 1GB storage (and additionally provides Server ActiveSync, etc). Also most Exchange subscriptions seem to allow you to pay monthly or quarterly, rather than upfront annually...
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01-27-2005, 02:43 AM
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Pupil
Join Date: Sep 2003
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Basically this is a hosted Exchange server... Hotmail now runs on Exchange 2003, and you get full sync'ing capabilities for E-mail, Calendar, and Contacts. And I've heard that more features may be added later in the year.
I've been using the Outlook Connector for a while now as part of my (currently free) MSN Premium subscription. In fact, it's the only reason I still have the subscription, and I had thought that I'd probably keep paying for it just for the Outlook Connector - unless I eventually end up with my own Exchange server for my business.
For now, I'm planning to switch to Outlook Live after my free MSN Premium subscription expires (not even sure when that is).
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01-27-2005, 03:06 AM
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Oracle
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Originally Posted by threedaysdwn
Basically this is a hosted Exchange server... Hotmail now runs on Exchange 2003, and you get full sync'ing capabilities for E-mail, Calendar, and Contacts.
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Hmm, where did you get this info I'm curious, as I wouldn't think that to be true? Realistically while Exchange 2003 may be good for corporations, it wouldn't be a good fit at all as the backend for Hotmail IMHO 8O For one thing all the business groupware capabilities are wasted, and for basic mail functions I would think there are better mailstores and MTAs that can scale better for Hotmail (even with clustering, it would be unwieldy to rely on Exchange servers for Hotmail's hundreds of millions of users)?
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01-27-2005, 03:09 AM
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Pupil
Join Date: Jul 2003
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You know, if they are using a hosted Exchange server, it sure would be nice if we could remotely sync with our Pocket PC's to it.
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01-27-2005, 05:48 AM
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5000+ Posts? I Should OWN This Site!
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Originally Posted by bitequator
Honestly, I'm not sure how attractive the Outlook-as-a-subscription model will be to Pocket PC users, who would already have a copy of the latest Outlook bundled with their PPC |
Correction: the latest-minus-one version 
For many people, having the latest and greatest (even though those two don't always go together) makes all the difference in the world to them.
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01-27-2005, 06:09 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Aug 2004
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Pocket Informant Preference
It would be preferable to dispense with dependence on the desktop version of Outlook altogether. Pocket Informant is actually more user friendly and efficient (at least to me). The only real advantages seem to be with sharing calendars to schedule appointments. It would be sweet to have a affordable subscripture service for outlook on the PPC with enterprise functionality such as calendar sharing!
Pocket Informant + affordable enterprise functionality directly from the PPC =  pclove:
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