On many occasions we work with different email accounts depending on their type of use or environment. For example, we can have a personal one, as well as a more professional one to use at work. In turn, we have the possibility of using online platforms to manage that mail, or local clients such as Outlook.
Each of these modes of use has its advantages and disadvantages. To a large extent, everything will depend on the preferences or needs of each one, for example, the availability of the Internet, security preferences, or devices to manage email. Without a doubt, cloud platforms for email give us the possibility of having our messages anywhere and on any device. However, the local programs that we install on the computer offer us greater functionality in most cases.
One of the best known and most used alternatives of this type is the one presented to us by Microsoft itself. Specifically, we are referring to the veteran Outlook that I am sure most of you know very well. This is a service that we can use both through its web version and through the program that we install on our computer. In this way we will have the possibility of managing all our email in the way that most interests us.
With everything and with it, this is not the only application that the software giant offers us for our messages. The Windows operating system has the app called precisely Mail that we find installed by default in the system. Initially, both proposals were designed so that we could configure and use our Microsoft mail in any of them.
Set up and use Gmail in Outlook and the Mail app
However, at the same time, we cannot forget that the mail service presented to us by the other software giant, Google, with its Gmail, has not stopped growing. That is why, over time, many users have wondered about the possibility of configuring their accounts belonging to this Gmail email, in Microsoft applications. Well, at this point we will tell you that we do have the possibility of adding and managing our Gmail accounts on both platforms of the software giant.
In this way we can use the two available versions of Outlook for PC, web and program, to use our Google email account. To do this, all we have to do is use the Add account function, where we will see the available options on the screen, including Gmail. Likewise, and with regard to the integrated application that we find in Windows, Mail, we also have the possibility of adding these accounts from Microsoft’s competition.
In fact, when starting to work with the application as such, from the beginning it offers us a wide range of possibilities when it comes to adding accounts. Among the formats and types supported here, Google mail could not be missing, which is the one that interests us in this case. Obviously through all the options that we have mentioned, to configure a Gmail account, we will have to specify the access credentials to it.
