Microsoft says its Outlook.com e-mail service is now officially available worldwide The venerable Hotmail service and brand will be going away. But Hotmail users will be able to keep their Hotmail.com ...

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Microsoft has taken the wraps off its replacement for Hotmail. The new service, called Outlook.com, is available in a preview version now. This post answers some of the questions I’ve been asked about ...

Microsoft today announced that the migration from Hotmail to the new Outlook.com is officially complete and that there are now more than 400 million active Outlook accounts. The Redmond software giant ...

First things first: Yes, you can keep your @hotmail email address, if you want. Microsoft, however, will be leaving the Hotmail brand behind. The new Outlook.com inbox. (Click to expand image.) Credit ...

This morning Hotmail users are finding themselves in a whole new world of email organization – so new, in fact, that their Hotmail login no longer leads them to Hotmail, it goes to Outlook.com instead ...

Redmond is rolling out a preview of a new e-mail service that combines elements of Exchange and Hotmail into a Metro-influenced client. Mary Jo Foley Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 30 ...

Six months after its initial launch, the preview of Outlook.com, Microsoft’s free webmail service that is meant to replace the aging Hotmail brand and design, now has over 60 million active users ...

Back in June, there were leaks about ""=""> -- something LiveSide.net described as a Metro-style Hotmail." On July 31, Microsoft took the wraps off a preview version of that new client, which ""=""> ...

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The outage that left Outlook.com and Hotmail users without access to their emails for almost 16 hours this week was due to overheating servers in the data center, Microsoft said. The service ...

Microsoft is in the process of killing-off its much maligned Hotmail web-based email and replacing it with Outlook.com. Outlook is the name of Microsoft's email application that's part of the ...