This document discusses the history and usage of three popular email services: Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and Outlook. It provides details on the development of Gmail at Google in 2004, the origins and struggles of Yahoo Mail, and the evolution of Outlook from earlier Microsoft scheduling and email products. The document also gives overviews of how each service can be used to send, receive, organize and manage emails.
2. GMAIL
USAGE OF GMAIL
HISTORY OF GMAIL
YAHOO
HISTORY OF YAHOO
USAGE OF YAHOO
OUTLOOK
HISTORY OF OUTLOOK
USAGE OF OUTLOOK
3. In November 2006, Google began offering a Java-based
application of Gmail for mobile phones. The idea for Gmail was
developed by Paul Buchheit several years before it was announced
to the public. The project was known by the code name Caribou.
During early development, the project was kept secret from most
of Google's own engineers. This changed once the project became
better and better, and by early 2004, almost everybody was using
it to access the company's internal email system.
Gmail was announced to the public by Google on April 1, 2004 as
a limited beta release
4. Gmail uses labels to help you organize with
more flexibility. A conversation can have several
labels, so you're not forced to choose one
particular folder for messages. You can also
create filters to automatically
manage incoming mail. Starring messages is
another way you can organize your inbox.
5. Yahoo's gone from being one of the world's biggest companies in
online search to an internet company that's struggled in recent
years to move beyond display advertising. Now, Verizon wants to
build a digital advertising and media company that rivals Google—
one of Yahoo's longest-standing competitors—as well as Facebook
and others. According to Zenith Media, Alphabet, Google's holding
company, controls 12 percent of all global media spend, meaning
Verizon and AOL have their work cut out for them.
6. The basics of using Yahoo Mail include, of
course, sending and receiving messages. But
Yahoo Mail basics also include formatting e-
mail messages, handling attachments, and
saving, storing and deleting e-mail
messages. You'll see that's all fairly easy to
do.
7. Microsoft Outlook is Microsoft’s Personal Information Manager (PIM)
application. It represents, in principle, the merger and evolution of
Schedule+ and the Exchange Client. The former was Microsoft’s calendar
and time management application and the latter was the first e-mail client
for Microsoft Exchange Server. Schedule+ got its start with Windows 3.11
in 1992 and had a complementary Mac version as well. Office 95 shipped
with an updated Schedule+. The Exchange Client was included with
Exchange Server 4.0 and 5.0, shipped in 1996 and 1997 respectively.
Exchange Server 5.5 did not include the Exchange Client as it adopted
Outlook 97 as the official client for Exchange. Exchange 5.5 shipped with
Outlook 97, Outlook for DOS, Outlook for Windows 3.x and Outlook for
Mac.
8. Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager from Microsoft,
available as a part of the Microsoft Office suite. Although often used
mainly as an email application, it also includes a calendar, task
manager, contact manager, note taking, journal, and web browsing.
It can be used as a stand-alone application, or can work with Microsoft
Exchange Server and Microsoft SharePoint Server for multiple users in
an organization, such as shared mailboxes and calendars, Exchange
public folders, SharePoint lists, and meeting schedules. Microsoft has
also released mobile applications for most mobile platforms, including
iOS and Android. Developers can also create their own custom software
that works with Outlook and Office components using Microsoft Visual
Studio.[4] In addition, Windows Phone devices can synchronize almost all
Outlook data to Outlook Mobile.