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 ...

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 ...

Hotmail users will be getting a new outlook on email before long. Late Monday, Microsoft announced that the preview phase for Outlook.com, the software giant’s new and improved Webmail service, is ...

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 ""=""> ...

I signed up for a Hotmail email address when I first got access to the Internet about 15 years ago. It wasn’t a great service, but it worked. I gave up on it after a while – Gmail was better, after ...

is a senior correspondent 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hotmail and Outlook Express are both Microsoft services that help you manage your email. Outlook Express was an email client that downloaded and saved your email on old versions of Windows. Hotmail, ...

Back in the day, Hotmail was, well, pretty hot. It was one of the first free Web-based email services available, instantly attracting a lot of users. It still has hundreds of millions of users ...

People want to know: is the new Outlook.com just a reskinned and rebranded version of Microsoft’s Hotmail, aka Windows Live Mail? Answer: Um, sort of. Maybe? OK, the truth is, it’s a little hard to ...