<p>As I wrote in my last post, after nearly a decade, I've finally given up on Gmail. Last weekend, I moved several thousand messages to a new account at Outlook.com, leaving my once busy @gmail.com address as a plain-vanilla forwarder going to a more modern service, one that works effortlessly with all my devices.</p><p>A little background first.</p><p>My primary work email address is associated with my business domain and is hosted on an Exchange Server run by Intermedia. (I list the reasons why I made that choice in this post.)</p><p>I keep my personal mail separate from my work correspondence. Over the years I've accumulated a collection of addresses on a variety of free email services: Hotmail and its successors; Yahoo (barely used); and, of course, Gmail. With this consolidation, all of those widely scattered addresses are now going to a single inbox, with an address hosted on a domain I own.</p><p><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/how-i-switched-from-gmail-to-outlook-com-and-how-you-can-too-7000022642/">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/2059230/why-and-how-im-saying-goodbye-to-gmail.html">Why (and how) I&#039;m saying goodbye to Gmail</a> (Macworld (blog))</p><p><a href="http://pandodaily.com/2013/10/30/is-super-fast-search-enough-to-convince-you-to-switch-email-apps-cloudmagic-wants-to-know/">Is super-fast search enough to convince you to switch email apps? CloudMagic ...</a> (PandoDaily (blog))</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=du59QESIZZeys-MRVlkTTrAcbZq4M&ned=us">5 additional articles.</a></p>