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Microsoft is ditching the linked accounts feature of Outlook.com in favor of aliases, a "more robust and secure way" to manage multiple email addresses, the computing giant announced Monday. I'm PCMag ...

Microsoft's Outlook.com team is adding more features to the company's Hotmail successor. On top of the just-announced two-factor authentication coming to Outlook.com and other Microsoft software and ...

My primary email address is Gmail, and I have an additional .edu address from which I get a lot of mail and want to be able to respond. I have set the .edu address to forward to Gmail, which worked ...

Today, Microsoft confirmed that it will begin rolling out alias support for Outlook.com. We've heard from a lot of you that you love using Outlook.com but you wish you had more flexibility signing in.

Microsoft is adding support for sending emails via alias email addresses (also known as aliases or proxy addresses) from the Outlook for Windows email client. "Send email from a proxy email address or ...

Microsoft is updating its Outlook.com app for Android users to provide some of the features previously exclusive to its website and Windows Mail experiences. Detailed in a blog post this week, ...

On May 2, Microsoft completed its transition from Hotmail to Outlook.com, and a couple weeks later revealed that users can now chat with Gmail contacts from within their Outlook.com account. Now users ...

Microsoft is working on adding support to the Outlook on the web browser-based client for sending emails via alias email addresses (also known as aliases or proxy addresses). After the feature's ...

If you use multiple email addresses linked to Outlook.com, come July you will need to set up aliases and/or mail forwarding instead. Linked accounts were a convenient way to switch between separate ...

Check Account Settings/Notifications/Manage email preferences, mine are still there as other email addresses. Related question: Is there a safe way to turn an existing alias into a separate, ...

Microsoft will send an email over the next week or so (one of the rare times it does) to Outlook.com users so look for it just in case your spam filter intercepts it. It will give instructions for ...