Did you sign up for a new @outlook email address from Outlook.com earlier today? If so, you’re one of a million people who did so within the service’s first six hours of life. The Outlook Twitter page revealed the details earlier today, along with the graph you see above. The number of signups will steadily increase over the following days, so it’s nice to see a Microsoft service start out strong out of the gate.
The new interface is one of the best I’ve seen for webmail clients and the ease at which things are integrated and easy to find even rivals Gmail. The package tracking feature works superbly well, as I tested with several merchants by forwarding past emails from eBay and Amazon to my new outlook.com email address.
To take things into consideration, AOL’s recent revamp of their webmail service saw the service with only 24 million users. Hotmail is still firmly in place as the first webmail service provider with 325 million users, while Yahoo lags behind with 298 million. According to Comscore, Google rings it at only 289 million users, but Google claims otherwise at a hefty 425 million users. Given the need of a Google account for Android devices, we’re inclined to believe Google here. Score one for Microsoft and we can’t wait to see what’s next.