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hey there this is Adam Lane from pocketnow.com and Microsoft just announced a new free email service called outlook.com it's kind of a replacement to hotmail and we thought we'd take a look and see how it works on a tablet PC let's check it out so we're here in Windows 8 release preview and if I go to Internet Explorer I've got outlook.com already loaded and see the tabs are here and I've already logged in with my hotmail address and you see it's quite different from regular hotmail and let's see how it works with touch see if I scroll through the list my top bar stays there but I have a lot of area to view the list so let's choose an email to open that one and now you can see the email reading view we have a very large area now your folders on the side still we have some ads at the top we have our functions we can categorize you can move to all those are real easy to touch now on the desktop you can click and drag some of these messages and drop them into other folders but that's our the work on the touch tablet unless I use my stylus now I can't drag it over there or into junk or into whatever and you see it's a paying attention there you also don't get the mouse over functions unless you use your stylus so you can see those there or your mouse of course on a desktop and one other cool thing here is this little messaging button now with other like the old hotmail used to see all your Facebook and messager friends listed online you don't see that here so but if you tap that's where you see all your friends are online show up in this list so you can either start typing a person or choose them from the list however this has a little bug if I try to roll through it works but then it it starts chatting with whoever I touched first now up here there's another menu it's kind of hidden there we go you got to touch it just right it's very hidden a little menu button Kimberley acts so very easily but then there's a very touch friendly tiles show up and you can choose other ones calendar and SkyDrive are not with the Metro theme yet but people are so from here it looks like a actual metro app you can filter your contacts from here you can manage groups you can manage all sorts of other things there's your groups cleanup contacts and vitam s injure and do new all that's right there and what's interesting is this social integration right from here all my Twitter contacts are listed here and I can tweet to them also in the email there's your Settings button up here we can choose different colors we have different accent colors we can also turn on our reading pane and with the quick views over here we have documents let's choose that one and then from here you can see if the documents are attached and you can view them online and it's going to load in the Office Web Apps except for the PDFs so that's a quick look at the new outlook comm preview which looks a lot like a Windows 8 Metro app and works pretty nicely with the touch sensitive tablet don't forget to give this video a thumbs up and thanks for watching