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Microsoft’s experiment with getting customers to pay for additional features in Outlook will be priced at $3.99 per month, according to an updated page on Microsoft’s website, uncovered today. Earlier ...

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 is making voice a much more significant part of the Outlook experience.

Microsoft Office 365 includes the Outlook Web App client along with the subscription service. If you use an Outlook.com, formerly Hotmail, account, you access the email service using a Web browser.

So you’ve decided you like the cut of Outlook.com’s jib, so much so that you’re ready to ditch Gmail and move your mail into Microsoft’s camp. Easier said than done, right? Actually, it’s less ...

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 ...

There’s little question that Web-based email has captured a major portion of the user base. The conveniences of webmail — all your messages in one place, few or no practical limits on storage, access ...

Some users of Microsoft's Outlook.com e-mail service are reporting problems syncing and sending their mail. The Outlook.com status dashboard indicates the service is down for a number of users, ...

Q. Recently, I’ve become concerned about the privacy of sending email. What’s a cheap and easy way to protect my email messages? A. I’ve consistently preached that the use of unencrypted email is the ...

Though Outlook is a Microsoft product and the iPhone comes from Apple, the two products are still compatible. Many iPhone users still get email via Microsoft Outlook and need to access that email from ...