Goodbye Hotmail

[Guest FourAces]

Not sure if you all of heard the news. But hotmail is going to be no more. Over 300 million users will be switched to the new outlook.com email service from Microsoft. Will you stick with them if using hotmail?

[TotallyOz]

Ya know, I just hate when they do this. I hate when they do it with apple from .mac to .me to .icloud. I hate it with hotmail now. Yeah, I'll get use to it. I just hate that years ago I had the chance to buy gmail.com and I didn't. (head slap)

[TampaYankee]

Ya know, I just hate when they do this. I hate when they do it with apple from .mac to .me to .icloud. I hate it with hotmail now. Yeah, I'll get use to it. I just hate that years ago I had the chance to buy gmail.com and I didn't. (head slap)

Me too. Years ago I had a chance to buy Apple for a song. The PepsiCo guy had run it into the ground. My company and most others refused to buy any more Macs. Predictions of its demise was coming from all quarters with the exception of Steve Jobs. Yeah, its stock could have been had for a song but who wants to buy a dying company. I still believed in it I just didn't think anybody else did.

[Guest NCBored]

Not sure if you all of heard the news. But hotmail is going to be no more. Over 300 million users will be switched to the new outlook.com email service from Microsoft. Will you stick with them if using hotmail?

I hadn't heard about this, tho I do use hotmail as my primary email account, so I went looking for more details.

I've only read one article ( the change doesn't seem imminent): http://money.cnn.com//2012/07/31/technology/hotmail-outlook-overhaul/index.htm?section=money_topstories

Since we'll be able to retain our current hotmail addresses, I'll likely stick with it, unless the interface is really bad (which isn't too likely).

[Guest EXPAT]

I had always avoided Hotmail and Yahoo mail like a plague because of the spam and lack of security.

[Guest gcursor]

Good god...TotallyOz is broke! Why didn't we see this coming? What are we going to do now?

gcursor

Ya know, I just hate when they do this. I hate when they do it with apple from .mac to .me to .icloud. I hate it with hotmail now. Yeah, I'll get use to it. I just hate that years ago I had the chance to buy gmail.com and I didn't. (head slap)

[TotallyOz]

Good god...TotallyOz is broke! Why didn't we see this coming? What are we going to do now?

gcursor

I was thinking about passing around a collection plate. Do you think an escort website is an appropriate place to ask for donations? If so, my paypal email is totallyozneedscashfast@believeme.com

[JKane]

I use Hotmail as my primary (naughty) email addr. and hadn't even heard anything about this yet. IF our hotmail addresses continue to work and they just give us some new interface to use I don't see how this is any different from when they switched to "Live" a couple years ago...

[Guest EXPAT]

The new interface is outlook.com apparently.

[Lucky]

The NY Times tech columnist, David Pogue, likes what he sees in Outlook:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/09/technology/personaltech/outlookcom-an-e-mail-service-with-lots-of-smarts-state-of-the-art.html?_r=1

[Guest FourAces]

I am not certain if the hotmail domain is eventually going to be replaced with the outlook.com domain. Microsoft has not confirmed this yet. However, a huge change is in the works and my guess is most do not know yet as Microsoft does not want any bad press on this.