<p>If you're a Hotmail/Outlook.com user and run several accounts, you may have long been using its 'linked accounts' facility, which allows you to manage multiple accounts after signing in to just one of them.</p><p>It's a pretty handy feature as it means you don't have to waste time signing in to each one all it takes is a couple of clicks and you're in another of your accounts. Trouble is, Microsoft is about to dump it.</p><p>"Over the next couple months, we will stop supporting linked accounts and instead help people move to a more robust and secure way of managing multiple email addresses: aliases," Microsoft's Eric Doerr wrote in a post on the Outlook blog on Monday.</p><p>Aliases are linked to a single Microsoft account so require only one login and password and allow users to send and receive messages using multiple email addresses. Users of linked accounts who want to consolidate their email will need to set up email forwarding to their primary account.The 'bad guys'</p><p><a href="http://www.digitaltrends.com/web/outlook-com-microsoft-kills-off-linked-accounts-switches-to-aliases/">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2013/06/17/microsoft-to-switch-linked-accounts-off-on-outlook-com/">Microsoft to switch linked accounts off on Outlook.com</a> (Ghacks Technology News)</p><p><a href="http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/microsoft-removes-outlook-com-linked-account-feature-18-06-2013/">Microsoft Removes Outlook . com Linked Account Feature</a> (Geeky gadgets)</p><p><a href="http://www.cmswire.com/cms/information-management/microsoft-slams-door-on-outlookcom-linked-accounts-due-to-security-weakness-021376.php">Microsoft slams Door On Outlook . com Linked Accounts Due to Security Weakness</a> (CMSWire)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=df4d5dPbtpgNWnMUkA9t19uLSIdOM&ned=us">32 additional articles.</a></p>