Microsoft announced earlier this week that it is closing Hotmail and moving the "hundreds of millions" still using it to Outlook.com by this summer. The move isn't unexpected, but perhaps more sudden ...

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Microsoft will start to switch Hotmail users over to Outlook.com. Feb. 19, 2013 -- So long, Hotmail. We'll always remember you and all your 1990s glory. Microsoft announced today that its new webmail ...

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 ...

Twenty years ago this week, on December 29, 1997, Bill Gates bought Microsoft a $450 million late Christmas present: a Sunnyvale-based outfit called Hotmail. With the buy—the largest all-cash Internet ...

Almost a year after Microsoft released its preview of Outlook.com, the upgrade is finally complete along with a few new features. Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year ...

“Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. Get it now.” When Hotmail launched in 1996 it grew fast. Very fast. It was one of the first free webmail providers, and they had a killer marketing idea ...

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 ...

It's official: Outlook.com will fully replace Hotmail as Microsoft's webmail service. The company will begin to auto-update accounts, and hopes they will be fully migrated from Hotmail to Outlook.com ...

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Microsoft Outlook and Hotmail users experienced outages Thursday morning. The majority of reported issues involved login problems and server connection difficulties. According to DownDetector, ...