The IT news portal Heise Online warns against using the new free Microsoft Outlook. There is a risk of losing access data to e-mail accounts.

Or use the Mail app built into Windows?

So the gist is the default mail app is being “upgraded” by Microsoft to Outlook for Windows app, so your account credentials previously stored in the mail app now got uploaded into the cloud.

Oh gross. Yeah, that’s not okay.

Thanks for the clarification

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