{"id":109,"date":"2012-12-15T12:44:13","date_gmt":"2012-12-15T19:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/waywired.com\/?p=109"},"modified":"2014-10-04T20:01:11","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T03:01:11","slug":"adding-gmail-accounts-to-windows-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waywired.com\/index.php\/adding-gmail-accounts-to-windows-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding Gmail accounts to Windows 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, you have to have a Microsoft account, but after that it is pretty easy:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/howto.cnet.com\/8301-11310_39-57550106-285\/how-to-add-gmail-and-yahoo-accounts-in-windows-8-mail\/\" target=\"_blank\">Full article referenced from CNET<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/windows-8\/\">Windows 8<\/a>\u00a0Mail e-mail app has a nice, clean interface and works with a variety of e-mail accounts, including Gmail and Yahoo! Mail. Here&#8217;s how to add them to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/reviews.cnet.com\/windows-8-review\/\">Windows 8<\/a>\u00a0Mail:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 1<\/strong>: Make sure you&#8217;re logged in to Mail with a Microsoft account. If you&#8217;re using a local account to log in to Windows 8, you&#8217;ll need to log in to Mail with a Microsoft account before you can add other e-mail accounts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 2<\/strong>: From within Mail, use the\u00a0<strong>Win+I<\/strong>\u00a0shortcut to quickly get to Mail settings, then click on Accounts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 3<\/strong>: Click on Add an account, then choose the e-mail provider you want to add.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 4<\/strong>: Enter your log-in credentials for the e-mail account you&#8217;re adding, then click Connect.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it. What do you think of the Windows 8 Mail app? Do you see yourself using it or are you going to stick with the Web client?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, you have to have a Microsoft account, but after that it is pretty easy: Full article referenced from CNET The\u00a0Windows 8\u00a0Mail e-mail app has a nice, clean interface and works with a variety of e-mail accounts, including Gmail and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waywired.com\/index.php\/adding-gmail-accounts-to-windows-8\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waywired.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waywired.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waywired.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waywired.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waywired.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.waywired.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"https:\/\/www.waywired.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waywired.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waywired.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waywired.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}