We’re going into Day 2-plus of an Outlook.com outage which has resulted in some users not being able to get access their e-mail for the better part of this past week. Just before noon on August 16, Microsoft switched the Live.com dashboard status ...

Since May 2015, Microsoft’s revamped Outlook.com has remained in preview. That’s over as of Wednesday, and Microsoft has added some new plugin capabilities to go along with it. Once known as Hotmail, Microsoft’s new Outlook.com is now built upon ...

Microsoft informed Outlook.com users via email that support for Facebook Messenger and Google Talk will be scrapped “within the next couple of weeks.” Microsoft informed Outlook.com users via email that support for Facebook Messenger and Google Talk ...

Microsoft is bringing Outlook.com closer to Outlook/Office 365 with a bunch of new features and back-end platform changes that will be rolling out over the coming months. Microsoft plans to start rolling out in the coming weeks new features for Outlook.com ...

Microsoft is launching a new opt-in beta program for Outlook.com today that will give users access to a faster and more personalized email experience, as well as an overhauled design. Over the next few weeks, the Outlook.com team will roll out to all ...

I am a hardcore Gmail user, as many people are, but I am not necessarily happy about it. Why? Google's Gmail.com user interface is horrid. Sure, it is functional, but it is outdated and hardly pleasing for the eyes. It is baffling as to why Google does not ...

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Microsoft Corp. has unveiled an opt-in beta version of its redesigned Outlook.com that offers users access to a faster and more personalized email experience. The aim of the beta, launched Tuesday, is for users to test out the features below and based ...

While most of us are perfectly fine using a free email service, like Gmail or Outlook.com, Microsoft believes that there is an audience for its new Outlook.com Premium tier that offers an ad-free experience and access to extra features for $19.95 per year.

There’s an elephant in the room, and it’s wearing a Microsoft T-shirt. Of course, when it comes to business-friendly webmail services, Gmail has been the go-to tool for as long as anyone can remember. Outlook? That was purely a desktop mail client.

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented data, weak metadata, slow pipelines, and poor data ...

Microsoft is still reporting issues with users' Exchange Online mailboxes and an issue with Microsoft Teams. The company said around 4 p.m. Thursday that it believes its latest attempt to fix the issue showed signs of being successful.