Microsoft announced Thursday that it had accomplished the herculean task of moving hundreds of millions of users from venerable webmail service Hotmail to the sleek new Outlook.com. Some 300 million ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--After an hour-long discussion at a status meeting last month, the Hotmail redesign really boiled down to one key decision: one big ad, or two? After months of reworking the ...

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 ...

Hotmail, now called Windows Live Hotmail, is one of the largest and oldest webmail services on the Internet. Therefore, Hotmail.com is also one of the most recognizable email domain names on the Web, ...

Hotmail is used by around half a billion people globally, second only to Google’s Gmail. But what is the difference between Hotmail and Outlook? Let’s find out… Microsoft bought Hotmail way back when ...

Microsoft transitions to the new Outlook.com email service, which now has more than 400 million active accounts. By THR Staff RIP, Hotmail. Sixteen years after it first launched, the email service has ...

Millions of Hotmail users globally face disruption. The outage started early on July 10, 2025. Users in the United Kingdom, United States, India, and other countries report login failures. Many are ...

Hotmail is old. Really old. When Hotmail launched in the summer of 1996 as the first free e-mail system available to everyone, Bill Clinton was running for re-election, the economy was booming, and ...