THE MORNING LIST
Many people chose their email provider a long time ago, but haven’t reconsidered since. However, over the years, this service has evolved – sometimes in the wrong direction – and user expectations have changed. Is it then advisable to change providers? To get an idea of your options, here’s a quick breakdown of five of the best free email services.
Google and Microsoft occupy the first two rungs of this selection thanks to the functional richness of their free offers and the auxiliary services they offer for free (video conferencing, office suite, calendar, artificial intelligence, etc.). Furthermore, these services are a priori sustainable: the risk of them closing in the short or medium term is low. But the two large American groups poorly protect the privacy of their users, which gives an opportunity to competition.
Clear and rich: Outlook
Particularly complete, Microsoft’s free email inbox has the advantage of being relatively simple to use compared to Gmail. Its interface is more agile, its icons are highlighted with color codes and accompanied by a small descriptive text, its email classification system is easier to understand.
This relative clarity does not prevent Outlook from being packed with advanced features similar to those of Gmail, such as rules that allow automatic classification of emails or possibilities for deep customization of the interface: the elimination of buttons considered unnecessary or the addition of a control panel. email preview, for example. . Additionally, Outlook offers handy little shortcuts that allow you to, among other things, pin an important email to the top of your inbox or schedule a message to be sent at a specific time.
For the clever: Gmail
Gmail’s interface is harder to understand, but it offers faster commands with the touch of a mouse, which more resourceful users will see as an advantage. With a single click you can, for example, classify a message into one of the three proposed categories (follow-up/important/pending) or unsubscribe from a newsletter, which unfortunately does not always have effect. With two clicks, you can make an email disappear until the evening or the next day. Additionally, Gmail automatically classifies certain emails into several categories: social networks, notifications, forums, promotions. Otherwise, like Outlook, Gmail is one of the most complete email services on the market.
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