Microsoft finished moving all users to "Outlook."
Microsoft announced on Thursday the end of the upgrade process, migrate the user data on the Hotmail "e-mail service" to "Outlook." the new outlook.com, so the new service interface will appear.
The company said that the number of active users on the new service reached 400 million, including more than 125 million people who use e-mail, calendar, and contacts through mobile devices with Exchange ActiveSync.
The company had announced in February the number of service users ' Outlook. "the new over 60 million before the company begins to force users to use.
Microsoft said that it had during the migration process to move data around 300 million active users, and the volume of data transmitted over 150 Petabyte (150 million) over a period of about 6 weeks, the designated data transferred online, users messages, calendar, contacts, folders and personal preferences.
After the "Microsoft" of the migration process, and to mark the occasion, the company has announced two new features for Outlook. ", first facilitate the sent email from different addresses, for example, the service already allows the user, when you hook up in your Gmail" service account "Outlook.", send and receive messages, so the message sees the future sent via "Outlook." – on behalf of "Gmail", but now will not only address the user sees the future in "Outlook.".
For the second feature, the company has worked to increase more integration between email and cloud storage service "sky drive, allowing the user to insert the files and images directly from Sky drive inside the screen create message in the" Outlook. ", the user can also, when you send e-mail, choose the files you want from Sky drive and email service will automatically display thumbnails for files and links allow for future access.
It should be noted that the company recently worked to promote the "Outlook." with a lot of features to attract users, where the newly merged chat Skype on PC operating system "Windows 7″ above, with, also worked on increasing the security options in service by supporting the process of" verification "steps which has become an urgent need for many.