Outlook for Windows will finally support Microsoft accounts with Non-Microsoft email addresses

The rollout will start next month.

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Published onOctober 24, 2024

published onOctober 24, 2024

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Microsoft has introduced a new feature to Outlook for Windows: adding personal Microsoft accounts with non-Microsoft email addresses to the Outlook app.

According to a message in the Microsoft 365 Center, the feature is expected to start rolling out in mid-November 2024 and will be available to all users by mid-January 2025.

This will allow users to access Microsoft services tied to a Microsoft account with a non-Microsoft email address, such as Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Copilot Pro.

Before this change, Outlook for Windows only supported adding Microsoft accounts with emails ending in outlook.com, hotmail.com, live.com, msn.com, and passport.com. In the future, users can use a Microsoft account like[email protected]to purchase a Microsoft 365 Personal subscription and then add that account to Outlook to access their emails.

The change doesn’t affect how Microsoft 365 is licensed, and users who didn’t have access to Microsoft 365 services before won’t gain access if their admin doesn’t change any licensing settings for their account.

Outlook for Mac users have been able to add personal Microsoft accounts with non-Microsoft email addresses for some time now.

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