Outlook webmail: Microsoft’s new email service looks great and doesn’t invade your privacy. - Slate Magazine

Perhaps the killer feature, compared to Gmail: the delete key actually works...

"The new Outlook is refreshingly frugal with your screen real estate. In describing it, Hall kept using the word “clean,” and I think that’s right—Outlook looks like what you’d end up with if you started with Gmail and scrubbed it of all unnecessary elements. It has a single bar on the top of the page for navigational buttons. The left rail has a search box and links to your mail folders. The right rail is devoted to advertising. The rest of the space is for your messages—and you’ll see a lot more messages than you do on Gmail."

Outlook webmail: Microsoft’s new email service looks great and doesn’t invade your privacy. - Slate Magazine