In Gmail, you can automatically sort emails by sender, keywords in the subject line or body, attachments, and by size. We've covered how powerful Gmail's filters are and what you can do with them so extensively that we almost take them for granted. Gmail set the organisation standard, but Outlook has caught up Technically, you can import Gmail messages into Outlook and vice versa, but what we're interested in is how these websites actually work in practice. Yes, Microsoft's names are confusing.įor our comparison, we'll be looking at the apps themselves, and not necessarily the underlying service underneath. Note: for simplicity's sake, we'll be calling this service Outlook throughout this article, though technically Outlook (without the. Microsoft says that Outlook users are limited to 5GB of space but ' this slowly adjusts or increases according to your needs.' Now the service boasts over 400 million active users. The fledgling service has a ton of unique features including Clutter, email rules, and integration with Outlook calendar. Later, Microsoft migrated all Hotmail users to. : In 2012, Microsoft launched a new web-based version of its Outlook email client.

As of May 2015, Gmail had over 900m active users. With robust filters, labels, and 15GB of space to share between various Google services, Gmail successfully made us rethink how email works. Gmail: Google's been leading the game in free online email since an April Fools prank in 2004 turned out to be real.Gmail has been experiencing issues since 1am in Australia Credit: Lifehacker

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