
<p>Microsoft's Outlook web mail service is trying to lure Gmail users away with new IMAP services. Basically, if you've set up Gmail in any email program like Thunderbird or Office Outlook, you know that the program downloads all of your mail and labels and stores them locally. That's basically what this new Outlook.com tool does, only it downloads all of your mail and stores them on Outlook.com servers.</p><p>In addition to the above, Microsoft has also recently added support for Google Talk right into Outlook.com so anyone bound to those services can still use them even though they're still Google's services.</p><p>Source: Outlook BlogVia: The Verge</p><p><a href="http://haverzine.com/2013/12/11/microsoft-wants-you-to-use-outlook-releases-gmail-migration-tool/">Keep reading...</a></p>