Windows Mailor Windows email, whatever you like to call it, he leaves
The Microsoft platform It will officially close on December 31 of this year. With such action, the email service will be discontinued; but with him will also go the other applications associated with the service, such as Calendar and Contacts. The announcement was not at all a surprise (did it surprise you?), since Windows Mail was among the almost completely dry branches that Microsoft would cut in the short term. On the other hand, The homegrown alternative already exists and you know it: it’s called Outlook.
What will happen next year?
From January 1, 2025, therefore, it will be impossible to continue receiving or sending emails from Windows Mail, well it’s not going to exist, we said it. You also won’t be able to act on appointments or events in Calendar. You guessed it, it doesn’t sync Contacts either. As stated Winfuturethe mentioned Microsoft services will stop working. Until now they had come preinstalled in the operating system itself.
However, you do not need to despair if you are using it (we will not ask why), because a short and very simple procedure is enough for you to remedy your precarious situation.
How to continue using email with Microsoft
What to do, then, when next year arrives, if your personal email was configured, who knows how long ago, in Windows Mail? Easy:
The most practical solution available to you is to switch to the other internal email service, that is, to the client outlook, which luckily is more modern and advanced. This software It’s free to download and use if you have a Microsoft account (if you don’t, you can open one for free). Also included are the Calendar and the Internal Contacts sectionwhich can thus compensate for the closure of those that you are going to lose from the end of 2024. In addition, you will get 15 GB of storage space in the mailbox and 5 GB in the Microsoft cloud, as well as free access to the web versions of the Office package. But there’s more: it is compatible with CoPilot’s artificial intelligence functions. On the official website it can be downloaded and, if you wish, you can add different functions and more storage space, paying the price, of course.
Or you leave and don’t come back
In any case, you also, of course, have the option of going with another company. There is no shortage of email service alternatives, from Gmail (with your Google Calendar and Contacts) until Thunderbirdwhich is from Firefox. In order for you to correctly configure your email, it will be very convenient that you follow the official instructions to adjust your mailbox preferences. Here are the direct links.
Article originally published in WIRED Italy. Adapted by Mauricio Serfatty Godoy.
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