Microsoft outlook support: 4 Steps to switch Gmail to Outlook.com

Microsoft outlook support announced a very simple 4-step guide, To facilitate the switch Gmail to Outlook.com.

According to an Ipsos study, 25% of users would like to change email if the process was simple. Based on this study, Microsoft wanted to make ultra easy migration of email (Gmail) to another (Outlook.com).

Microsoft outlook support is publishing a small guide of 4 steps:

1. Create an account Outlook.com

2. From Gmail, go to Settings then Forwarding and POP / IMAP tab, select Forward a copy of incoming messages to your new Outlook.com account. Click Save Changes at the bottom of the page and click on the verification link in the message you receive.

  

 

 

3. You can then link your contacts to Gmail Outlook.com to retrieve your address book.

4. You can finally use the extension (@ Outlook.com ou@Gmail.com) you want in the Options, click Other and messaging settings on your email account, and then choose Add a send-only Account.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The ability to let users use the extension of their choice is clever: Microsoft leaves the choice and some freedom, but in its own centralized messaging. Outlook.com, which has over 400 million users, should broadly stronger.