outlook

Microsoft’s new Outlook desktop client for Windows has been failing to launch for a subset of users, producing immediate crashes or silent no‑window launches — but there is a practical, low-risk workaround that has restored service for many affected machines: resetting per‑user local state by...

Microsoft’s advisory for CVE-2025-62562 — an Outlook remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability — is unambiguous: if your systems are offered multiple security updates for this issue, you must install every update that applies to the Office/Outlook binaries in your estate. Microsoft states that...

A growing wave of Windows users reported that Microsoft Outlook simply refuses to open on their PCs this week, but a simple, community-sourced workaround — removing two local application folders — has restored access for thousands of affected machines and offers a practical route back to the...

Microsoft is investigating a fresh Exchange Online outage that is preventing many users of the classic Outlook desktop client from connecting to their mailboxes — a development that arrives amid a string of recent service incidents touching Copilot, Azure, and Microsoft 365 that together have...

Hello - I'm new to this forum... still using Windows 10. For many months I was using the Calendar program in Windows, entered all my appointments and left it open on my space bar. Then about a week ago I tried to open it and Microsoft 365 opened with Outlook which I don't use. My calendar...

If you use Mediacom email and want to connect it to Microsoft Outlook, the correct IMAP and SMTP settings — plus a few authentication and client-specific tweaks — are the difference between a smooth, synced mailbox and endless password prompts or send/receive failures. This guide consolidates...

Outlook and Microsoft now make it possible to sign in using QR codes — whether you want to add your Outlook account to the mobile app quickly, enable passwordless sign‑ins with Microsoft Authenticator, or pair companion devices with Windows — and understanding the different QR workflows, their...

Microsoft’s messaging over the past 18 months has been blunt and consistent: Microsoft 365 is a broad productivity ecosystem — and Outlook is the mail, calendar and personal information management gateway Microsoft wants everyone to use on Windows. Background / Overview Microsoft 365 (formerly...

On 29 October 2025 John Donovan published what he says is the unredacted transcript of a conversation with Microsoft Copilot about Royal Dutch Shell’s ethics — a public moment that crystallises three decades of rancour, a vast online archive of leaked documents, and an argument over how far...

If you’ve been installing and deleting paid task managers in the hope that the next app will finally make you productive, the answer may already be on your PC: Microsoft To Do, the lightweight but surprisingly capable task hub quietly bundled with Windows and tied into the Microsoft 365...

Microsoft has acknowledged and begun to address a disruptive bug that in some instances prevents the classic Outlook for Windows from launching — an error that leaves affected Microsoft 365 users locked out of the desktop client — but its official guidance still lists Outlook Web Access (OWA)...

Hi, When trying to configure my outlook email account for Outlook on Windows 11, I get these results: Automatic detection and Microsoft 365: Manual (which I'd prefer)… ... I get constant requests for my password (which I've checked as working by logging out of and back into...

Microsoft’s Copilot for Windows has taken a significant step toward deeper integration with personal productivity workflows: a new Insider build introduces Copilot Connectors that let the app reach into third‑party accounts, and a document creation and export capability that can generate Word...

If your inbox feels like a never‑ending to‑do list, Microsoft Outlook 2025 still offers one of the most complete, integrated toolsets for taming email, calendars, contacts, and tasks — and this updated beginner’s guide breaks down the practical steps and modern features that will let you...

Microsoft and the Outlook team quietly shipped a feature-packed September 2025 update to the new Outlook for Windows that finally addresses several long-standing parity gaps with classic Outlook — and in practical testing the update delivered four immediately useful features: custom notification...

Lionel Barrow’s short, furious tour of Microsoft 365 — republished and amplified by The Register — reads like a field report from an alien visitor trying to understand a human ritual: a thirty-something engineer raised on Gmail who steps into Exchange, Outlook, SharePoint, and Microsoft’s...

Hello, I have a problem searching in Microsoft Outlook Classic: Example: Folder A Subfolder 1 - Multiple Mails Subfolder 2 - Multiple Mails Subfolder 3 - Multiple Mails I have a mail designated as X in Subfolder 3. If I search for Mail X, the result is 3, without specifying the sequence until I...

Perplexity’s new Email Assistant promises to turn an overflowing inbox into a working assistant that schedules meetings, drafts replies in your voice, and auto-prioritizes messages — but it arrives as an exclusive, high-cost feature with real privacy and reliability trade‑offs that every Windows...

Microsoft has quietly moved a full-fledged, free Copilot chat assistant into the daily work surface of Microsoft 365—embedding a persistent, content-aware AI sidebar inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote for qualifying business subscribers, while simultaneously expanding...

Microsoft’s insistence that the “new Outlook” for Windows delivers a native experience has ignited one of the more consequential UX debates in the Windows ecosystem this year: a web-first client shipped as the default, with missing functionality, ads for free users, and a forced migration that...