Microsoft’s Outlook.com isn’t anywhere near as tweakable as Gmail, but one great thing Outlook.com does offer is email aliases—multiple, independent email addresses belonging to a single account. Why ...

Microsoft will start to switch Hotmail users over to Outlook.com. Feb. 19, 2013 -- So long, Hotmail. We'll always remember you and all your 1990s glory. Microsoft announced today that its new webmail ...

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If you want to request a copy of your Outlook email data, you can follow this guide. WE show you how to download or export a mailbox from Outlook.com. Whether you store only email or calendar or ...

Microsoft is about to introduce new security requirements that will mean users of Outlook.com will no longer be able to access their Gmail inboxes. Starting June 30, if you want to use Outlook to ...

Microsoft just added IMAP support to Outlook.com e-mail, which allows you to keep your e-mail synchronized when using third-party clients. We'll show you how to set it up on Apple's Mail app. Ed Rhee ...

Microsoft announced earlier this week that it is closing Hotmail and moving the "hundreds of millions" still using it to Outlook.com by this summer. The move isn't unexpected, but perhaps more sudden ...

As I wrote in my last post, after nearly a decade, I've finally given up on Gmail. Last weekend, I moved several thousand messages to a new account at Outlook.com, leaving my once busy @gmail.com ...

If you got in on Google Apps for free before Google shut the party down, congratulations. If you're starting a new domain now and looking for someone to host your domain's webmail, getting a Google ...

Every email provider comes with some limitations, and almost all of them have one thing in common – limited attachment size. It doesn’t matter whether you use Gmail or Outlook as your email management ...

Microsoft has confirmed that some Outlook.com users are experiencing issues with emails being blocked and marked as spam when trying to email Gmail accounts. This known issue only impacts users with ...

Microsoft Outlook is down - what we know. Update, May 16, 2025: This story, originally published May 15, has been updated with a statement from Microsoft confirming the cause of the Outlook outage. As ...