it is safe to use outlook for your mail with your gmail account. windows (nor microsoft) will do anything with your gmail account. it only enables you to carry out the functions.

If you have an e-mail account with Gmail, Yahoo, or Hotmail (now called Outlook.com), you can access your e-mail from any computer using a web browser. Access the Gmail, Hotmail, or Yahoo e-mail login page and login to access your e-mail online.

The best way to tell if someone else has used our account is to scroll down the Gmail inbox and look for “Last account activity” in the bottom right. In fact, Gmail will, by default, notify you of any unusual activity. You may get an alert if you log on with a new device or from a different country.

Unless you want to prevent any access to your google account from your device you should give permission. Although it gives permission to access your google account it will not delete anything unless you ask it to. Microsoft wants to delete my Gmail and take it over with Microsoft Edge.

Several WIndows apps require access to your Google account or you can’t use it in Windows because Google will block it. For Windows 10 Mail Google also requires a Security Settings change they don’t always tell you about here: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010….

Navigate to https://myaccount.google.com/ on the desktop. On mobile, open the Google app and tap “Settings” then”My Account.” Click on “Apps with account access” under “Sign-in & security” on the Desktop. If you’re on a phone, click “Sign-in & security” and scroll to “Apps with access to your account.”

Go to the Security section of your Google Account. Under “Third-party apps with account access,” select Manage third-party access. Select the app or service you want to remove. Select Remove Access.

The repeating password error often arises as a consequence of having 2-Step-Verification enabled. To turn 2-Step-Verification off, open your Google Account page in a browser. Then click Security on the left of the page. Turn off the 2-Step Verification setting there.

When you create a Microsoft account, you can use any email address as the user name, including addresses from Outlook.com, Yahoo! or Gmail. Microsoft accounts are most often associated with Office for home products. For more information about Microsoft accounts and how to manage them.

Microsoft would have no knowledge of someone accessing a gmail account. Pay careful attention to the links and don’t click on them. They likely don’t resolve to where they say they do. If you can examine the email headers, full reality can be determined.

Your Gmail email address, definitely will not be closed since as you have mentioned, Microsoft doesn’t have jurisdiction over Gmail. What the system will delete is the Microsoft account created in the back ground using the Gmail email address.

That’s absolutely a phishing scam message. Microsoft doesn’t send out messages like that. First order of business is to make sure that you do NOT click on any link inside of the message and if you ever did, make sure that you never any information that is asked of you.

Microsoft will never send emails to notify about closing email accounts. Accounts can only be closed manually by the owner, or if the account becomes inactive for at least two years. Please mark them as Spam or Phishing through the Junk button, never click on any links and delete those emails right away.