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, ...

Kent was a senior managing editor at CNET News. A veteran of CNET since 2003, he reviewed the first iPhone and worked in both the London and San Francisco offices. When not working, he's planning his ...

Kent was a senior managing editor at CNET News. A veteran of CNET since 2003, he reviewed the first iPhone and worked in both the London and San Francisco offices. When not working, he's planning his ...

Microsoft Outlook has been the industry standard for desktop email for years, and although that likely isn’t changing any time soon—see the Outlook 2013 Preview as evidence—Microsoft believes that ...

Microsoft has openly admitted that Hotmail isn't so hot, and that webmail needs a major makeover. But now the company is leap-frogging over its Hotmail property via an all-new webmail client, dubbed ...

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, ...

The email service features a clean design, integration with Word, Excel and PowerPoint, a new photo viewer, Skype calls inside the inbox and the ability to pull contacts from Facebook and LinkedIn.

In the span of two days, Microsoft and Google separately announced beefy social-networking-style upgrades to their respective free, Web-based email platforms, adding integration with video-calling ...

Microsoft's new Outlook.com webmail service has racked up 60 million active users in the six months since its July customer preview launch, making it the fastest-growing email service yet. Microsoft ...

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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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, ...