Microsoft is giving its Xbox employees an Xbox email address

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma wants everyone to know: "We are Xbox. " Just last week, she scrapped Microsoft Gaming as the name of Microsoft's gaming division in favor of simply Xbox. Now, to reinforce that message, sources at Xbox tell me that all Xbox employees are getting an @xbox.

com email address next month. The new Xbox email address will replace an existing @microsoft. com address as the default way to send new emails, and employees will be able to opt-out and keep their Microsoft email address as the default send-from address instead.