Hotmail not working

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Some time ago, Microsoft said that they were migrating the Hotmail accounts to Outlook. When I log into Hotmail through my browser, it goes to outlook.live.com.

So I've recently had this same issue as the OP, where Apple Mail keeps wanting my password. After reading the link provided by the thread starter above, I created a new Apple Mail account using Exchange for my Hotmail account. It's basically userid@outlook.com. This new account had all my old Hotmail stuff in it. This seems to solve my problem, which sounds very similar to the original poster.

I deleted my old Hotmail account from Apple Mail, and all seems okay.

This is a Hotmail (for me) glitch that Apple needs to fix because I/we are on a MacBook Pro product (running Sonoma 14.5) and using AppleMail to email. Apple needs to add "Outlook" short-cut button on laptop mail settings to update to modern authentication for Outlook. **On my iPhone it was one easy click under mail settings to fix this issue. NEED THE SAME FOR ON MACBOOK asap.

Uh, this is all Hotmail, nothing to do with Apple. Write Microsoft about it. We use Hotmail with Apple Mail fine as it is now. Of course in September it will break but that's all on Microsoft.

I am not really understanding what the problem is here. First, none of this is supposed to happen for another two months. Microsoft is just sending you advance warning.

Next, both Microsoft and Apple only support software for so long, and likewise only hardware for so long. That's just the way it is with the technological world. As long as you can run relatively new software then you should have any problem at all. It's only when you run older hardware that cannot upgrade to the software version that is required that you will then find Hotmail won't work anymore. Even then there may be alternatives such as logging in with a web browser instead of using an application.

Again, this is something Microsoft is doing. The only thing Apple can do (and you don't even know if they haven't already done it) is include this feature in their software. In fact they may have already done it. Do you know for sure they haven't already? I kind of suspect you are seeing an issue where there may not even be one for you. You don't tell us anything about the hardware or software you are using so we cannot tell from that.

Again, you have not told us exactly what the problem is that you are encountering. All you have told us about so far is that you received an email.

I can tell you from my own experience that if your account is a personal one (not work or an institution) and you try to use the new settings, it does not seem to work (yet?). I would ultimately get a message about how I had to use an work or institution address. This was using non-Apple software that supports the new security protocol. That suggests pretty strongly that it is a Microsoft issue. I do not have a computer running any Apple software that is new enough to test this feature.

You could help figure this out by telling us what it was you did. As I said, we haven't really heard from you that you are having a problem, and under what conditions you are having this.

My wife uses Hotmail more than I do. She uses it on her computer daily and she reports that kind of behavior. I mostly use Hotmail on my iPhone maybe every other day and I don't have any problems. Nor does she report any iPhone Hotmail problems. This has been going on for several months now. Ergo, I suspect it is Microsoft messing around with their servers. We aren't changing anything on our end (apart from my today trying out the new settings we are supposed to start using in 2 months and they not working) so I really, really think this is Microsoft's end of things. And there's probably nothing we can do to fix it. The software I tested today has that feature but it still didn't work. Once I went back to using the old setting my software (Thunderbird) worked fine again.

I think we just have to wait and hope that by the time they throw the switch that all works again. Incidentally, I also have never had any problem when logging into Hotmail with a web browser.

Me too. Exactly as you describe above. Cannot locate instruction to update modern authentication for my MacBook Pro. I did follow instructions received by Microsoft for updating on my iPhone (which worked!) but. MacBook is still kicking me off mail randomly. Need patch or instructions asap!!!

Again, perhaps inadequate information. Is this a personal Outlook account, or an institutional one? I have a personal one and I haven't even been told anything by Microsoft which makes me wonder if they are even implementing it for personal accounts. Our institution runs two types of accounts using Gmail. One group requires the new authentication, the other does not.

Also no mention of what system version you are using and what software.

I am using a personal Hotmail account at home (directed to Apple Mail) on my MacBook Pro Sonoma 14.5 and having this issue.

I upgraded Apple Mail on my iPhone using the instructions at the very top post of this thread and it works fine. Am having this issue on my home-based MacBook. In short, we need instruction like above that work on a MacBook (not just on the phone).

In short, in the instructions copied in the top thread, it works for iPhone because iPhone has a "Outlook" button to select where on my MacBook it does not. (This is basically the root of the problem for me.)