The most popular feature request for Microsoft’s Outlook.com has been to add a dark/night theme that replaces the eye-searing white with a calming dark grey, making it less visually traumatic to check your e-mail after dark. Microsoft has now announced that this is coming soon, as spotted by The Verge. The new theme will be […]
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Microsoft axes Outlook.com premium features
We hope you didn’t get too attached to Outlook.com Premium — from all indications, it’s already going away. Microsoft is adding most of Premium’s features (tougher email security, ad-free web access, more storage and top-tier support) to Office 365, but in the process has revealed that it’s removing the paid option for Outlook.com users. You […]
Microsoft cans Outlook.com Premium as it rolls its features into Office 365
Enlarge (credit: Alexander Savin) Microsoft is shaking up its consumer-oriented e-mail offerings, further improving the value of its Office 365 subscriptions as it continues to push customers away from perpetual licenses. Features formerly part of the Outlook.com Premium scheme, an annual subscription to Microsoft’s consumer e-mail and calendaring service, are now rolled into the Office […]
Microsoft launches Outlook.com Beta: Faster framework, more personalization, and a smarter inbox
After the massive Outlook.com overhaul last year, Microsoft is back at it again. The company today announced Outlook.com Beta, a new version of the web email client users can try to improve by giving feedback to the team’s engineers and designers. The company is promising the beta will bring a faster Outlook.com with new ways […]
Now Amazon Echo can access your Outlook.com calendar
As a part of Amazon’s ongoing quest to make Alexa and its Echo devices deeply embedded within our lives, this week it added support for Microsoft Calendar accounts. If your account ends in Outlock.com, Live.com or Hotmail.com, then it should be accessible with no problem, however, according to the FAQ, corporate Exchange accounts are probably […]
