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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, a mainstay of email and internet communication, is no more. As of today, every single Hotmail account has been migrated to Outlook.com, Microsoft's newer and redesigned email experience. Your ...

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 ...

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 ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. If you thought Microsoft was done with its summer announcements then think again.

For several years, describing the competition between the three major Webmail providers as a race has failed to adequately capture what’s been going on. Google has been adding features to Gmail at a ...