Around ten years ago, like many longtime Hotmail users, I got a Gmail account and never looked back. Gmail was faster, more organized and just plain better. Well, that was then. These days, I’ve ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Microsoft's free Outlook.com email service hasn't seen much in the way of new updates lately, but ...

It was going to happen sooner or later: the clean minimalist Outlook.com will soon start displaying advertisements alongside your inbox and emails. Microsoft announced users in the U.S. and Brazil ...

Get a tour of Outlook.com, learn how to clean up your inbox quickly, become familiar with three important settings and find out how to change your current email to Outlook.com (while keeping your old ...

Microsoft Outlook users in the UK can now make and receive voice and video calls from within the Outlook web client — with the same functionality set to roll out to the US and Germany in the coming ...

Let’s face it; your inbox is cluttered, and even if spam filters are keeping out almost of all the junk emails, there’s seemingly no end to emails that are a low priority for you. Between daily deals ...

For years Gmail has ruled the land of web-based email services, but slowly and surely Microsoft has been making Outlook.com a force to be reckoned with. We’re not yet at the stage where we can ...

You need to be strict with your inbox. According to Dharmesh Mehta, Senior Director of Outlook.com, the average inbox-throttled person receives a staggering 15,000 emails per year–that’s about 41 ...

Outlook.com hopes to get defectors from Gmail. Microsoft%27s new email service has gone from 0 to 60 million active users in 6 months Handy tools can help clean up your inbox Six months after ...

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Microsoft's consumer webmail service combines minimalist style with excellent inbox-cleaning tools, social network and SkyDrive cloud integration, and speed. Microsoft's new Web-based email, ...