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 ...

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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 ...

Microsoft said Thursday that it has enabled aliases on Hotmail accounts, allowing people to create temporary email addresses. Users who create an alias can route emails to that alias to a separate ...

If you’re a Hotmail/Outlook.com user and run several accounts, you may have long been using its ‘linked accounts’ facility, which allows you to manage multiple accounts after signing in to just one of ...

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 ...

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, ...

In PowerShell, an alias is a handy shortcut or command alternative. For example, instead of typing Get-ChildItem, you can type ls or dir. Aliases can act as a transition from other shells to ...

In the name of enhanced security, the tech giant is having users tie their linked e-mail and other accounts to one single Microsoft account. Dara Kerr was a senior reporter for CNET covering the ...