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[juliotendo]

I've used all types of email services throughout my life and I've found Outlook.com by Microsoft to be pretty great.

However some people live and die by Gmail.

What are your thoughts?

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

I use(d) Outlook for professional accounts, gmail for personal accounts.

Overall I prefer gmail but they are both good.

 

[lifa-cobex]

Gmail for personal.
Outlook for crap.

 

[Shy Fingers]

Been using gmail since 2006-ish. Only use Outlook at work.

I prefer gmail.

 

[a multicultural team of v]

Hotmail or go home

(Gmail real account, hotmail trash account, work is Office Outlook)

 

[Threeshotgamer]

Gmail for personal and Outlook for business

 

[Celcius]

Outlook at work, Gmail for personal

 

[Woo-Fu]

Gmail for webmail. eM Client if I have to do something complex. Longstanding hate for Outlook formed way back when I had to support it. What is dead may never die.

 

[I_D]

Outlook is still a thing?


I know a few people who use Yahoo (Whyyyyyy?) and a few people who use college emails (Eh... I guess?), but I honestly can't say I know a single person who uses Outlook.

 

[Fbh]

Gmail both for personal and work use.
The last place I worked at used outlook and I hated it. It didn't help that they used some old ass version which felt like it came straight out from the 90's

 

[Mehme]

Gmail is bad now. CEO Sundar Punchai has messed up google.

 

[Loki]

Outlook for business, Gmail for personal. Gmail is simply NOT an enterprise offering in any sense. Outlook is far more robust in all ways for business use cases.

 

[Schrödinger's cat]

I use(d) Outlook for professional accounts, gmail for personal accounts.

Overall I prefer gmail but they are both good.

Same here.

Email for personal communication feels quite outdated in the age of social media and smart phones.
But for professional stuff, email still makes a lot of sense and Outlook is pretty great for it.

My approach to email is inbox zero. Deal with it and file it.
I feel like I have to tell everyone - especially those bozos who have 5,000 emails living in their inbox.
I guess that makes me a kind of digital vegan.

 

[CyberPanda]

Protonmail. Fuck Outlook or Gmail.

 

[TyphoonStruggle]

juliotendo
Outlook or Gmail are fine if you don't care about privacy.

I prefer Gmail to Outlook.

I created a secondary Outlook account and it required my phone number. Even after I've yet to send or receive a single mail, twice my account has been locked (maybe because I use a VPN?). And I'm unable to unlock it with my phone number because, for some reason, it requires a different phone number than what is associated with my account. This Outlook account turned out to be a major headache.

Protonmail. Fuck Outlook or Gmail.

According to https://restoreprivacy.com/secure-email/ Protonmail is bad too

 

[Constant Flux]

Been using Gmail ever since it was in its beta stage.

 

[CyberPanda]

Outlook or Gmail are fine if you don't care about privacy.

I prefer Gmail to Outlook.

I created a secondary Outlook account and it required my phone number. Even after I've yet to send or receive a single mail, twice my account has been locked (maybe because I use a VPN?). And I'm unable to unlock it with my phone number, for some reason it requires a different number. This Outlook account turned out to be a major headache.



According to https://restoreprivacy.com/secure-email/ Protonmail is bad too

The Proton Blog - News from the front lines of privacy and security | Proton

Welcome to the official blog of Proton, where you can get the latest news about privacy and the internet.

protonmail.com

 

[petran79]

I use Thunderbird on Windows, Gmail on Android

 

[TyphoonStruggle]

The Proton Blog - News from the front lines of privacy and security | Proton

Welcome to the official blog of Proton, where you can get the latest news about privacy and the internet.

protonmail.com

Okay allegations about voluntarily providing such information may be false. But there are several other cons to ProtonMail:

• ProtonMail does not encrypt email subject lines
• Strong ties to US research institutions; funded by US investors
• Utilizes phone number verification
• May suspend accounts without warning

 

[Night.Ninja]

Outlook for work and personal

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Outlook is 10x better than Gmail, but I use gmail for person use, since I'm too lazy to get everyone I know to switch over to a personal Outlook email and I don't need all the functions a work email needs.

In Gmail, you can't totally block emails. They go to your bin. In Outlook you can outright block emails from ever touching any inbox, spam folder or bin.

 

[Kadayi]

Being Freelance I use Gmail for both, though I run separate accounts for each.

 

[RiccochetJ]

My hotmail account is compromised. It used to be a personal email account 20 years ago. Now it's how I sign up for shit. I just have a filter to throw absolutely everything in the trash.

For my work email, it's a necessity. Google is decades behind on business emails imo.

Show me Google for business emails and I'll show you where a lot of people have modded it to try to behave like Outlook.

 

[iPaul93]

Gmail is definitely better.

 

[Kenpachii]

Gmail never had issue's with it.

I had a msn account which is now a hotmail account and a outlook account i guess. To much shit changing with those guys.

 

[janicetr]

Outlook.com (formerly Hotmail.com) accounts (not only e-mail, but calendar, contacts, todo, etc.) work like charm with Windows 10 and it's built-in applications like Mail, People, Calendar, MS ToDo, etc. I even prefer them to the actual Outlook application from MS Office, which I use at work. Nowadays I actively avoid everything made by Google.

 

[EverydayBeast]

Gmail is free and I've had loads of success with it

 

[Linacruise1467]

I mostly prefer to use Gmail.

 

[womfalcs3]

I use Outlook the stand alone PC package and the Android app (with Gmail integration). Both work great.

 

[TTOOLL]

I use Outlook now because I don't really trust Google anymore. Not that MS is amazing in terms of privacy but...
Also, I use Office and Onedrive so it makes sense to stay in that ecosystem. MS apps integrate much better with MacOS than Google's.

 

[Pejo]

I have one of each. Gmail seems more usable for me personally.

 

[Bernkastel]

Outlook is still a thing?


I know a few people who use Yahoo (Whyyyyyy?) and a few people who use college emails (Eh... I guess?), but I honestly can't say I know a single person who uses Outlook.

Yeah, Hotmail is now Outlook.

Gmail is free and I've had loads of success with it

Outlook is also free unless you are talking about the one that comes with Office(which Gmail does not even hold a candle to).

 

[Hideous Snake]

Gmail. After the hotmail days I'm pretty much done with it especially that I hate How Outlook functions.

 

[Alfen Dave]

Outlook for Important/Legal/Work Matters
Gmail for everything else

People who say ''Business'', I take it you all CEO's..

 

[Havoc2049]

Outlook for both business and pleasure.

 

[daveonezero]

I am a grown up I pay for my email instead of selling my soul to google.

I use macOS email client and no email on my phone

 

[Insane Metal]

Gmail.

 

[bad guy]

snail mail

 

[Husky]

Outlook's got a lot more options to refine to your own preference, GMail feels like the iOS to Outlook's Android. I use Outlook for both personal and business accounts. Real nice to have multiple email aliases tied to one account as well.

 

[J-Roderton]

Gmail for junk. Protonmail for everything else.