Outlook Live E-mail Gives Students a
Bigger Mailbox, Built-in Chat, and More!
Overview:
This past summer (2010), ECU students moved to new, improved Microsoft Outlook Live e-mail.
Read the New Student E-mail Notification Sent to ECU Faculty, Staff and Students [pdf]
Students now have:
- 10GB of mailbox space and 20MB attachments.
- a more personalized e-mail address that includes their last name, first initial(s), year entered ECU, and ends in "@students.ecu.edu". (Example: doeja10@students.ecu.edu)
- a built-in chat that lets you chat with up to 20 friends at one time.
- 25GB of built-in "Skydrive" folders that allow students to store documents or photos and access them from any computer or share them with their friends. (Skydrive is similar to Piratedrive.)
- ECU branding to show your Pirate loyalty (Arrrgh!)
Outlook Live is accessible from a Web browser and many popular e-mail programs, such as Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Entourage, and Mozilla Thunderbird, and is compatible with both Windows and Macintosh computers.