Outlook sucks as a POP and IMAP client because of the PST file format. PST is terrible, and prone to corruption. Without an Exchange backend, Outlook has to store *everything* in your PST. Calendars, ...

Microsoft just added IMAP support to Outlook.com e-mail, which allows you to keep your e-mail synchronized when using third-party clients. We'll show you how to set it up on Apple's Mail app. Ed Rhee ...

You already know how to turn Thunderbird into the ultimate Gmail/IMAP client, but lots of folks are using Microsoft Outlook on a daily basis (whether by personal or company choice.) The How-To Geek ...

Microsoft adds IMAP and OAuth support to its Outlook.com email service, providing what it says is a "richer email experience across devices and apps." Mary Jo Foley Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech ...

Microsoft has announced it will improve its IMAP support in Outlook 2013, although it will not have two IMAP-based features that have been requested by Outlook users. Previous versions of Microsoft's ...

Frankly, the world would be better off if they just abandoned the pretense and dropped IMAP support completely. I posted a while back on the topic of prospect of moving from Outlook+POP to ...

One of the major issues with Microsoft's Hotmail replacement, Outlook.com, is you could only access it on the web or, with email clients, through the POP3 or Microsoft's EAS protocol. A lot more ...

Microsoft has announced that has finally added support for the older IMAP protocol to its Outlook.com email service, which will allow third parties to make add-ons for the service. It's been over a ...

More than a year after Microsoft introduced its revamped, modern-style webmail service, Outlook.com finally—finally!—supports IMAP. The IMAP protocol allows standalone email clients to access messages ...

If you’ve wanted to use Outlook.com with an email client that doesn’t support Exchange ActiveSync, today is your lucky day. As a part of an AMA with the Outlook.com team on Reddit, Steve Kafka, a ...

Today Microsoft announced that it has added IMAP support to its Outlook.com webmail product. Outlook.com has over 400 million active users according to Microsoft, making it not only one of the most ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. A year ago on Wednesday, Microsoft surprised the world by launching a preview of ...