Microsoft changes 'Outlook Web Access' to 'Outlook on the web'

Fresh from showing glimpses of the next-generation Outlook Web Access client in a preview of Exchange Server 2016, Microsoft has now detailed just how the new version of the browser-bound Outlook will work. There's a new name for starters: “Outlook Web Access” is now “Outlook on the web”. Those marketers sure are earning their …

[Anonymous Coward]

Reliable?

Can anyone tell me when the Internet went from an interesting source of information and asynchronous communication to a reliable data link with a 24/7 SLA with all the parties between your company and Redmond?

If not, at least plan for the potential downtime.

[TheVogon]

Re: Reliable?

"Can anyone tell me when the Internet went from an interesting source of information and asynchronous communication to a reliable data link with a 24/7 SLA with all the parties between your company and Redmond?"

It didn't - but then you don't have to go via the Internet to reach Microsoft: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/expressroute/

And anyway, Exchange 2016 is usually an on premise solution. Are you thinking of Office 365?

[P. Lee]

>featuring the orange-highlighted ' Action toolbar'

wot no <flash>?

How did they make it so ugly?

[Destroy All Monsters]

Re: >featuring the orange-highlighted ' Action toolbar'

It's pretty ok actually but the Microsoft-specific text formatting which interworks with nothing and uncopyable text in the most impossible places (like, IN THE ADDRESSBOOK, HMMMNNNNN!!?) really riles me up a bit.

[Fungus Bob]

Re: How did they make it so ugly?

That requires a team of talented graphic designers and UI experts.

[Anonymous Coward]

Branding idea

Now we have the branding genius of Outlook on the Web, I just wonder what Micro on the Soft will come up with next.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Branding idea

It was the marketing guys always called it, "heeer, that thing you get mails on the web from, ya 'now?", so to make it friendlier to their targer market they rebranded it "Outlook on the web". If they could, they would have called it "Facelook" or "Outbook", and made it a Facebook plug-in.... after all the web is Facebook, isn't it?

[Ken 16]

Don't devalue the brand

It's 'Outlook on the web' not 'Outlook on the Web'! *Hermione Granger voice*

[Fungus Bob]

Re: Branding idea

"I just wonder what Micro on the Soft will come up with next."

Bing on the Thing

Bob on the Knob

Word on the Turd

[Anonymous Coward]

Long view

Hotmail to Outlook on the Web, come on that has to be worth a few mil.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Long view

Means of access vs domain name

Outlook Web App -> Outlook Web Access -> Outlook on the web

Hotmail.com -> Outlook.com

[Alan Sharkey]

It could have been

Outlook in the Cloud - or Outlook on the Clouds - Both sound more "modern" to me.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: It could have been

Outlook is Cloudy.

It'd be accurate 99% of the time for us Brits at least.

[Destroy All Monsters]

Outlook on the web?

How about "The Road Ahead"?

[Fungus Bob]

Re: Outlook on the web?

That was an absolutely *awful* joke, have an upvote.

No beer icon as you have clearly been drinking from a bottle with no label.

[Destroy All Monsters]

Re: Outlook on the web?

Geek thanks I have been stressing whatever remains of my liver with the best the no-yet-muslim-and-affiliated-alcophobics world has on offer!

[Locky]

Sweep command?

I presume coming soon is Hook, Block, and Cover Drive

Mines the one with a copy of Wisden in the pocket

[Andy Bell]

At least i know what i'll be doing for the next few years

Explaining to cloud phobic security people that outlook on the web is really outlook on the premise....thanks !

[Cuddles]

More productive?

Soccer, emojis, newsletters, coupons, weather forecasts and cure little pictures of aeroplanes. Yeah, that sounds like some serious office productivity.