Outlook.com has over 25 million users, makes it easier for Gmail users to switch over.

Launched back in July, Outlook.com has received mostly positive feedback with its new and fresh interface that got it's inspiration from Microsoft modern UI. Today Outlook.com has over 25 million active users and the team found that a third of Outlook.com users are active Gmail users. They hired a research firm to recruit Gmail users to try Outlook.com for the first time and this is what the Gmail users think about Outlook.com:

• They prefer Outlook.com's clean user design
• Outlook.com does a better job of blocking spam and it outperforms Gmail when it comes to helping manage unwanted messages like newsletters and daily deals
• Outlook.com makes it easier to share photos and Office documents

The Outlook.com team is also announcing some new features that will be released in a few weeks:

One-click Archive: from the inbox, select messages and click the Archive button to move the selected messages to the Archive folder (or any other folder of your choice). It's a fast and simple way to move messages out of your inbox to find later.

More and more keyboard shortcuts: Outlook.com has dozens of keyboard shortcuts and we're adding even more. And better yet, we don't need to list them all in this post because you can now find all available keyboard shortcuts by simply typing a question mark when you're in your inbox.

More customization of your inbox: we added several new ways to make your inbox look and work the way you want.

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