Microsoft is inviting Outlook.com users to test its new user experience, promising faster performance, new 'smart inbox' ...

Hotmail users and newbies are flocking in droves to Outlook.com, Microsoft’s latest Webmail overhaul that will eventually replace Hotmail. Less than 24 hours after Microsoft rolled out Outlook.com, ...

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 ...

Back in June, there were leaks about an alleged new Microsoft mail client — “Newmail” — something LiveSide.net described as a Metro-style Hotmail.” Today, Microsoft took the wraps off a preview ...

Even as almost everything else in technology changes at breakneck speeds, e-mail continues to stay relatively constant. Sure, Google changed the game when it introduced Gmail in 2004, but most of the ...

Back in June, there were leaks about an alleged new Microsoft mail client -- "Newmail"-- something LiveSide.net described as a Metro-style Hotmail." On July 31, Microsoft took the wraps off a preview ...

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 ...

It's official: Outlook.com will fully replace Hotmail as Microsoft's webmail service. The company will begin to auto-update accounts, and hopes they will be fully migrated from Hotmail to Outlook.com ...

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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 ...