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Outlook vs iCloud Mail
August 14, 2025 | Author: Adam Levine
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Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager from Microsoft. It can be used as a stand-alone service/application, or can work with Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft SharePoint Server for multiple users in an organization, such as shared mailboxes and calendars, Exchange public folders, SharePoint lists and meeting schedules.
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With your iCloud Mail account, you can send, receive, and organize email. When you set up your devices for iCloud Mail, you can also access your iCloud Mail account using the Mail app on your iOS device, iPadOS device, or Mac computer, or using Microsoft Outlook on a Windows computer. No matter which device you use, the changes are updated everywhere.
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Top 10 Email services for Business
Top 10 Email services for Business
Outlook and iCloud Mail are both free email software and services that work via a desktop application, web interface and mobile apps. They allow to synchronize mail between devices, protect against spam and malicious attachments, support IMAP and SMTP protocols, provide functions for filtering and sorting letters, include calendar and contacts. You can connect your own domain to each of these services.
But Outlook (1996) is a product of Microsoft. For a long time it was just a desktop email client, but then the Outlook.com service appeared. This is more of a corporate software than a consumer one. Of course, it's integrated with Microsoft's ecosystem (Microsoft 365 office, Windows, OneDrive cloud storage, Exchange mail server, SharePoint intranet). Outlook supports setting up flexible rules for automatic message processing, a system of categories and labels for organizing mail and contains a built-in translator.
iCloud Mail (2011) is an Apple's product and accordingly only works on iOS/macOS - and therefore is rarely used for business. This is a quite minimalistic mail application, much less functional than Outlook. But it's deeply integrated with iPhone and iPad - does not require separate authorization (uses Apple ID), quickly synchronizes and (theoretically) provides a higher level of security (stores emails on servers with end-to-end encryption in the Apple ecosystem).
See also: Top 10 Email services
But Outlook (1996) is a product of Microsoft. For a long time it was just a desktop email client, but then the Outlook.com service appeared. This is more of a corporate software than a consumer one. Of course, it's integrated with Microsoft's ecosystem (Microsoft 365 office, Windows, OneDrive cloud storage, Exchange mail server, SharePoint intranet). Outlook supports setting up flexible rules for automatic message processing, a system of categories and labels for organizing mail and contains a built-in translator.
iCloud Mail (2011) is an Apple's product and accordingly only works on iOS/macOS - and therefore is rarely used for business. This is a quite minimalistic mail application, much less functional than Outlook. But it's deeply integrated with iPhone and iPad - does not require separate authorization (uses Apple ID), quickly synchronizes and (theoretically) provides a higher level of security (stores emails on servers with end-to-end encryption in the Apple ecosystem).
See also: Top 10 Email services
