NEW YORK (CNNMoney) - Microsoft has chosen to profoundly redesign the best email benefit on the planet. Farewell Hotmail.com; make proper acquaintance with Outlook.com. 

 

Throughout the following couple of months, a developing number of Hotmail clients will be welcome to try out another Web-based email benefit called "Standpoint," named after Microsoft's other well known email mark. In the long run, everybody will be progressed to Outlook, however Microsoft gave no firm due date for that to happen. 

 

Hotmail clients will have the capacity to keep their @hotmail.com or @live.com addresses, yet new clients might have the capacity to pick between @outlook.com or @live.com email areas. 

 

"We thought the time had come to push the limits of email," said Chris Jones, leader of Microsoft's Windows Live division, which incorporates Hotmail. "We made another mail benefit for a cutting edge client encounter." 

 

Hotmail, propelled in 1996, has a little more than 325 million clients around the world. That makes it the Web's biggest email benefit, however its lead is contracting. Google's Gmail presently has 298.2 million clients. Yippee Mail is directly behind, with 298 million clients, as per following firm comScore. 

 

Hotmail's more up to date equals have blown past its maturing highlight set. 

 

With regards to social incorporation, names, channels, and UI, Gmail - and Yahoo, to a lesser degree - offer more total administrations. The name "Hotmail" even seems like a relic of the 1990s, similarly that having an (AOL) email address has turned into a climax. 

 

That is the reason Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500) chose to begin once again. 

 

The principal thing clients will see about the new Outlook Web application is how much cleaner it looks than Hotmail or even Gmail or Yahoo. Microsoft cases to have decreased its header space by 60% contrasted with Gmail, which gets clients straight into their email. 

 

Extensive, clear symbols and orders seem just when important, and advertisements are pushed off the beaten path. They've been wiped out totally from individual to-individual messages. 

 

The new UI is pleasant, however the greatest changes come in the social perspectives and man-made brainpower incorporated with the new Outlook. 

 

Clients of the new administration can associate with Facebook (FB), Google (GOOG, Fortune 500), LinkedIn (LNKD) and Twitter contacts to get live social data and photograph symbols when they're messaging them. Regardless of whether a client isn't associated on Facebook to their email beneficiary, Outlook will look over Facebook's open catalog to in any event get that individual's profile photograph. 

 

Clients can likewise IM with Facebook companions ideal from the mail customer. Skype's video visit benefit, which Microsoft obtained multi year prior for $8.5 billion, will before long be coordinated also. 

 

Standpoint likewise conveys some brilliant new highlights to consistent old email. 

 

The administration naturally distinguishes and marks bulletins and limited time offers from stores. For messages that Outlook perceives as an advertisement, it will add a widespread withdraw catch to the message. Snap it, and Microsoft won't just withdraw through the retailer, yet will naturally channel any future advancements into the junk if that withdraw gets overlooked. 

 

Another creative component kicks in when you're sent a refresh about a bundle you've requested. A catch on the highest point of the message takes you appropriate to the shipment following site. 

 

Plainly Microsoft is following Gmail clients, some of whom are disappointed with late changes to the administration's UI. The new Outlook makes porting over Gmail contacts simple, and it comprehends Gmail console easy routes. You can even continue sending and getting email from a Gmail address. That alternative lets Outlook imperceptibly assume control in the background. 

 

Microsoft's objective: To get to 1 billion clients around the globe. 

 

It's an objective that Hotmail wasn't regularly going to hit. With another brand and some great highlights, Microsoft's Web email administration may at long last be cool once more.