Outlook.com still missing IMAP support after a year and 600 feature improvements

A year ago on Wednesday, Microsoft surprised the world by launching a preview of its Outlook.com webmail service. Designed as a replacement to the company's ageing Hotmail service, Outlook.com took on a new UI and features to bring it into the modern era of email. The focus was clearly Google's Gmail service, with a third of signups coming directly from Gmail and multimillion-dollar ads aimed at those particular users. After 12 months of Microsoft's new email service the company is revealing this week that it has made 600 improvements based on feedback, but one feature is still missing: IMAP.

Without IMAP, you don't get the third-party app support

IMAP is one of the two most common feature requests from users, says Dharmesh Mehta,...

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