It’s easy to set up your Gmail account to forward new messages to your inbox.

Step 2: Tell Gmail to forward your new mail to as it arrives Keep this window open while you do the next step.

You’ll get a welcome message, and then you’ll be in your clean, new Inbox. Just go to, click on “Sign up” and fill out the form to create a new account. If you’ve never verified your Gmail address with Microsoft, then you’ll be asked to do so. Go ahead and sign in to using your Gmail address and Microsoft password. You can read instructions for renaming your account in our upgrading from Hotmail post. (NOTE: You can rename your account to an address, but this is entirely optional. If yes, it means you already have a Microsoft Account, and can use it to sign in to. We’ll show you below how to get your Gmail messages delivered to your inbox.ĭo you use your Gmail address to access Microsoft services, like Xbox Live or SkyDrive? Just sign in to with your Hotmail account to upgrade it to.

You use your Gmail address to access Microsoft services, like Xbox Live or SkyDrive You don’t have a Microsoft account and you don’t use any Microsoft services.

You already have a Hotmail account etc.).

When you’re upgrading from Gmail, you’ll fall into one of three camps:

Set up to be able to send email using your Gmail address.

You can keep your Gmail address and can get all your mail right in Outlook. You don’t even have to tell people to change the way they communicate with you.

SkyDrive and Office built-in to make it easy to share and collaborateĪnd, of course, respects your privacy – it won’t use the contents of your personal email to show you ads in fact, you won’t see ads when reading email from friends.

Great tools to help handle newsletters, deals and more.

Pictures from Facebook in messages from your friends, messaging that lets you chat with your friends on Facebook right from your Inbox.

An address book that connects to Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, so all your contacts are in one place.

A fast, modern UI that shows you more of your email with less clutter.

Upgrading from Gmail to offers many advantages including: Get modern email without giving up your Gmail account Now, let’s take a look at how to upgrade from Gmail to Outlook. In my previous post we described how to upgrade from Hotmail to. Just last week we introduced a new personal email service called.

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