Outlook.com To Eliminate All Associated Accounts

To centralize almost all their email accounts to a single program, Microsoft unveiled the Outlook.com e-mail service. In fact, the method was only rebranding, the sooner offered Hotmail and Live services had been helped bring under a one website, Outlook.com. It is centralized and more secure than the earlier email services offered by Microsoft. That is the advantage of having the Outlook account. The main characteristic Microsoft introduced together with the new email services are the opportunity to talk to Gmail connections through the Outlook email accounts.

According to our sources in Microsoft, one more change is coming to effect soon, elimination of all linked accounts a person may have opened in Hotmail or Live. However, the relocate is seen inside an optimistic aspect being a motivation to centralize all email credit accounts, several will not react nicely for the new modifications. This new transform could cause some major Outlook problems, as being the users usually do not feel better about it. Microsoft decided to move along with its decision stating that the new feature will allow a secure environment. Microsoft proves their point by stating that if a malicious user gains access to the main Outlook email account, he can easily access other linked accounts too.

Users are unable to change the passwords of their accounts other than the primary email account in regular intervals. That is microsoft also says that another issue related with maintaining linked accounts. This makes the task of the hacker easy as the accounts can be compromised quickly. One of the major Outlook problems of having linked accounts is that if one of your linked accounts is compromised, the malicious user can easily access the main Outlook account and thereby gain access to other linked accounts.

However, users having linked accounts may recall that there is already a security feature available with the account that will monitor the account for suspicious activity and if any activities are found, all the linked accounts will automatically be unlinked from the primary email account. However, Microsoft does not feel that the feature is enough to keep the accounts safe and so they are going to eliminate the linked accounts and intend to replace them with aliases. To create the alterations less difficult to the users, Microsoft is planning to introduce a function that will instantly ahead the emails from the second emails on the main one and an option for sending email messages from the second email account.