Microsoft Outlook is the most important, the most used and the most powerful program to view, manage, send and receive e-mail messages on the computer. However, most people use Microsoft Outlook only in two cases, if they already find it installed on their PC or on their work computer.
This is because Outlook, the original program and not to be confused with the old and no longer available Outlook Express, is a paid program that cannot be bought alone and is included in the expensive Office suite which also includes Word, Excel and Powerpoint.
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Buying Office in 2015 means being able to choose between two different versions, which you can try for free for 30 days and then pay in two different ways.
However, only one of these also contains Microsoft Outlook and is now the Office 365 version with the cloud versions of Word, Excel and Powerpoint .
Office 365 is a program that works with a monthly or annual subscription and which, depending on the license chosen, can be installed on one or on 5 PCs or Macs.
The page to buy Office 365 is on the Microsoft website.
Office 365 can still be tried for 30 days, even if the free trial requires you to immediately enter your credit card number or Paypal address.
Alternatively, to date, you can still download Office as a complete program (currently the version is Office 2013) in a trial version that expires after 60 days.
Downloading Microsoft Outlook is therefore impossible without paying the subscription for the entire Office suite.
As a result, any site that promises or claims to click on a Microsoft Outlook download link is fake and misleading.
Those who are disappointed, however, should consider that only those who need it for work should spend money on a program such as Outlook since there are also top-level alternatives, first of all webmail .
Outlook.com is the online version of Microsoft Outlook that can be used for free as a web app not only with an Outlook.com email address, but also with any other.
Practically, as explained in a specific guide, it is possible to combine all the Email addresses into one on Outlook.com which becomes like a mail client, even if not installed on a PC and not able to download messages on the PC.
The same can be done with Gmail, explained in the guide to import and manage other Email accounts in Gmail .
Gmail is an e-mail app that has almost all the main functions of Microsoft Outlook, so much so that Google promotes it as a real alternative also for professional, corporate and business use.
If the objection was that with webmail you cannot download mail to your PC, it is worth noting that there are programs to save emails on your PC at all times and that sites like Gmail and Outlook.com still guarantee data reliability. 100%, with no chance that something will be lost.
If you really need a program to manage mail, we have seen in another article the best alternative Email clients to Microsoft Outlook to read mail from the PC, among which Thunderbird of Mozilla and MailBird stand out.
Finally, Microsoft Outlook is not only the PC and Mac program included in the Office suite, but also the name of the application for Windows Phone, Android and iPhone.
Unlike the computer program, the Microsoft Outlook app for Android and iPhone is free
The application can be used as a mobile mail client whatever the type of account, be it Gmail, Yahoo or other.
