Microsoft Outlook Is Actually Awesome, Overcoming #NBCFail, and Sharing Music in a Cloud World

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🗓️ 6 August 2012

⏱️ 29 minutes

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This week we’re learning that Microsoft’s new Outloook webmail service is actually pretty awesome, that you can watch the olympics online, in real time, for free, and that Amazon’s CloudPlayer service is actually worth a look again. Also, we’re answering your questions about cloud music, uTorrent, and mobile Wi-Fi hotspots. For more information and links about the topics in this episode, check out the show notes at http://lifehacker.com/theshow. Show notes for every episode are posted on Mondays at 12:00 PM PT. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, welcome to LifeHacker for the week of August 6th.
0:27.6	With me is Adam Dachius.
0:29.6	Hi, Woodson Gordon.
0:30.6	Hello.
0:31.6	Thorn Klosowski is going to join us for a bit.
0:33.6	I'm Adam Patch.
0:34.6	We've got news, we've got downloads, we've got questions to answer.
0:38.3	Same as always. Let's get started.
0:41.3	So probably the biggest news of last week, Microsoft, who you all know from the Windows operating system,
0:52.3	has released a new webmail client called Outlook, of course,
0:59.2	named for the desktop mail client Outlook, but it's basically like their new push for Hotmail,
1:07.9	and it's pretty cool.
1:10.4	It's really nothing like the Outlook desktop client
1:12.5	from what I can see it's a name only I know that it's very confusing but essentially you go to
1:16.9	outlook.com you can sign up for an email address and it's you know you have a web mail client
1:22.0	the thing about it is it's really good which is kind of shocking I mean you know we like hotmail hotmail is pretty good it's you know the which is kind of shocking. I mean, you know, we like Hotmail.
1:28.1	Hotmail is pretty good.
1:29.2	It's, you know, the best probably Gmail alternative out there.
1:32.4	But Outlook, like, takes it to a whole new level.
1:35.7	And for something that's, for a service that's brand new,
1:38.4	it's kind of packed with pretty sweet features.
1:41.1	I mean, you log in, the interface is extremely clean and well put
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