Bangalore: Microsoft has brought a webmail innovation with its Outlook.com. It is a successor to Hotmail as well as an enhanced webmail for individual business professionals. It draws features from Hotmail, Microsoft Exchange, and the Metro UI from Windows Phone 7 and Windows 8. There are four reasons which may tempt some users, especially professionals to make the switch from Gmail.

#4 Automatic Folders

The best new innovation in Outlook.com is its “automatic folders” feature. The system sort mails for you by automatically creating virtual folders for stuff like email newsletters, Facebook and Twitter alerts, and other repetitive messages that hide important emails from actual human beings. There may be some errors, because it is run by an algorithm. You can also set up your own inbox rules in Outlook.com.

Microsoft’s Chris Jones wrote in his blog, “Outlook.com automatically sorts your messages from contacts, newsletters, shipping updates, and social updates and with our Sweep features you can move, delete and set up powerful rules in a few, simple clicks so you can more quickly get to the email you really want.”

Another important feature is that you can move your mouse over a message and get a set of actions to delete the message or flag it as important or sort it to a folder and you can even customize the functions you want to see on the hover-over.