Microsoft Giving Xbox Employees an Xbox Email Address - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 29 April 2026 / 2,022 Views
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and Xbox executive vice president and chief content officer Matt Booty in an "We Are Xbox" message sent to employees last week revealed a new mission statement that included changing the company name changing from "Microsoft Gaming" back to "Xbox" and a reevaluation of Xbox exclusives.
The Verge's Tom Warren spoke with sources at Xbox has reported Xbox employees will be getting their own @xbox.com email address next month and will replace existing @microsoft.com addresses as the default way to send emails. Mojang employees will also be given their own @mojang.com email address.
Employees will be able to opt out and keep their Microsoft email address as the default. Xbox and Mojang employees will still retain their @Microsoft.com email aliases.
The email change is being done as a way of "strengthening the Xbox identity inside and outside of Microsoft," according to an internal Xbox memo.
Activision and Bethesda still used their own domain names for emails despite being acquired by Microsoft several years ago.
Some Xbox employees when putting in a request to Microsoft's IT department were able to get an @
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A seemingly small change, but from getting rid of "This is an Xbox" marketing campaign, to shutting down the "Microsoft Gaming" overarching division, to embracing the original logo colors and even removing the corporate minimalism in the process, to lowering Game Pass prices, to now allowing Xbox employees to have an @xbox.com email address, something I'm surprised has never been done before, it starts to add up and you start to get the feeling that they're doubling down on Xbox as a legitimate gaming brand with this level of unification.
That's a lot of smaller yet still very meaningful changes in such a short amount of time on top of also adding highly requested features on console that have been begged for since launch. Still a LONG way to go to actually start gaining any resemblance of consumer confidence again, not to mention the elephant in the room sized question regarding console exclusives, but it's reassuring to see such positive changes happening so quickly.
An even more meaningful change would be completely divesting from AI.
Zero chance of happening, she was thr AI boss. On that front you can expect an even bigger push.
Then she's an idiot.
