Hotmail Is Really, Officially Dead As Of Today

[Steve williams]

Dylan Love, SF Gate

Hotmail, once 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 account will stay the same – people can continue emailing you at [your address]@hotmail.com – but the interface and experience no longer have a thing to do with the Hotmail name.
Outlook.com announced two new features today that Hotmail users can take advantage of right away. These are Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, a popular and device-friendly standard for receiving your email, and deeper integration with SkyDrive, Microsoft's cloud storage solution. Instead of sending an attachment from your hard drive, for example, it's now a snap to send a file stored in your SkyDrive.
Rest in peace, Hotmail.

 

[amirm]

If my memory serves me right, Hotmail was Microsoft's first company acquisition. They stayed the same with the same protocols for decades. There was little integration into rest of Microsoft for the whole time I was there. Seems like integration is finally happening.

I only use mine with Outlook (program) so have not noticed the difference in interface but I hear people like outlook.com.

 

[NorthStar]

Interesting, because not long ago I killed 'Outlook'.
I was having some bad infiltration (virus attempts), and annoying disruptions by some bad apples.

Too many people in this world are totally lost in a fake world of illusions and uncontrollable emotions.
Their only life is to hurt others.
Believing in the unbelievable is real, and paranoia is also real.

Our privacy is being under attack by perpetual psychotics.
And robbers are doing everything to access your most private reseaux of information.

Hotmail, Gmail, etc., they don't last; sometimes you have to erase (eradicate) to free yourself from the tormentors.
No PC system, no Mac system is impervious to security breaches by the worst type of people.

So long Hotmail; R.I.P. ...and Skype is out-looking at you from the sky.

 

[mojave]

Without this news update, I wouldn't have even know anything has changed. Hotmail.com has been pointing me to live.com for a long time (years?) for e-mail. Outlook.com still points me to live.com and the interface is the same as what I've been using for months. The interface has changed many times over the past 17 years I've had my account so it doesn't seem like that big of deal.

So, I can still use hotmail.com to access my e-mail (forwarded to live.com) and my hotmail address stays the same. I guess the main thing is that there won't be any new @hotmail.com addresses. Those who send e-mail to me for the next 17 years won't know that hotmail.com has "died" since it will still be my address. The reports of its death are greatly exaggerated.

 

[amirm]

Yes, this is mostly a marketing campaign from Microsoft....

 

[Johnny Vinyl]

Yes, this is mostly a marketing campaign from Microsoft....

Yes, but it's a good one. The new interface is much more user-friendly and functional. I love the overall simplicity of it as well. I've always loved Outlook and think it's the best email client out there...bar none.

We migrated to Google and Gmail last year at work and it's a joke. I curse it every day.