https://omid.dev/tags/outlook.com/Recent content in Outlook.com on Omid Farhanghttps://omid.dev/images/bio-photo-150x150.jpghttps://omid.dev/images/bio-photo-150x150.jpgHugo -- 0.163.3en-US2026 Omid Farhang | All rights reserved.Thu, 02 Aug 2012 13:25:00 +0000https://omid.dev/2012/08/02/outlook-com-gets-1-million-users-in-first-6-hours/Thu, 02 Aug 2012 13:25:00 +0000https://omid.dev/2012/08/02/outlook-com-gets-1-million-users-in-first-6-hours/<p>Mashable Wrote:</p> <p><img loading="lazy" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-cJ4hIshgdBM/UBp4nwSrPjI/AAAAAAAAGr8/3fYK-Dsvo74/s1600-h/outlook-logo-600-275x171%25255B2%25255D.jpg" alt="outlook-logo-600-275x171" /> </p> <p>The team behind <a href="http://outlook.com/">Outlook.com</a> revealed in a tweet that one million people signed up for the new email service in just six hours.</p> <p>Microsoft unveiled its Hotmail replacement Tuesday at noon Eastern, and by dinnertime it had cracked seven digits.</p> <p>That’s an impressive spike, illustrated in the chart that <a href="https://twitter.com/Outlook">@Outlook</a> attached to the tweet (shown below). However, it’s still a tiny fraction of the user base of Hotmail, which comScore pegs at about 350 million — making it the most popular free email service in the world.</p>