I said outlook but I meant hotmail which was the only option until ~2012 for free users, maybe live.com was an alternative too? Gmail was around in 2004. Regardless though i’d say hotmail.com vs outlook.com is the same. A small business using outlook.com looks on par with comcast.com or verizon.com for email. It looks extremely amateur.
Microsoft hosted exchange is not outlook.com to me. By the time you’re big enough to sign up for m365 or just an exchange online plan and get it configured properly you’re probably big enough to also have a custom domain name… and that’s a real low bar.
Microsoft also cares very little what average users are using because they are making money from businesses primarily.
Yep, like oracle. Focus is just on business which misses the great majority of why competitors are successful. Google workspace sucks but makes money because people are familiar with it.
I said outlook but I meant hotmail which was the only option until ~2012 for free users, maybe live.com was an alternative too? Gmail was around in 2004. Regardless though i’d say hotmail.com vs outlook.com is the same. A small business using outlook.com looks on par with comcast.com or verizon.com for email. It looks extremely amateur.
Microsoft hosted exchange is not outlook.com to me. By the time you’re big enough to sign up for m365 or just an exchange online plan and get it configured properly you’re probably big enough to also have a custom domain name… and that’s a real low bar.
Yep, like oracle. Focus is just on business which misses the great majority of why competitors are successful. Google workspace sucks but makes money because people are familiar with it.