They get your email, calendar and contacts, save them on ‘cloud’ servers that you can access from any Internet connected device. Gmail, /Hotmail and Yahoo Mail (among others) are mail services or mail hosts. Those details matter if you’re trying to get support or even ‘how to’ help online. People talk about using ‘Gmail’ or ‘Outlook’ without knowing the important specifics.
It’s the same email account and messages but viewed and managed in different ways.īoth Google and Microsoft use confusing naming, leading to people not appreciating the important difference. There are two ways to read and send emails: How can you tell if you’re reading email in a web browser or using email software like Outlook for Windows or Mac? This might seem obvious to some but many people use ’email’ without understanding the important difference between webmail and email programs.
