Hotmail replaced by Outlook.com

[TriedandTested]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19067634

Microsoft is overhauling its free webmail service, dropping the Hotmail name it has used since acquiring the product in 1998, and renaming it Outlook.com.

The revamped service will help sort messages as they arrive and allow users to make internet calls on Skype.

It said the move would help tackle the problem of "cluttered" inboxes.

The move may also be designed to win over users of Google's rival Gmail service.

www.outlook.com

Just signed up...looks quite nice.

 

[Dj_Jestar]

hotmail.com still works

edit: meh, it did until I opened outlook.com :/

edit2: Ha, it's ridiculously broken in Opera.

 

[paradisiac]

eeewwwww hideous blue

 

[DirtyJester]

Pain to date, everytime I login and it's asking me all sorts of reminder questions... grrrrr

 

[PermaBanned]

It's just hotmail with a different skin. It doesn't even look like a very good skin.

 

[stockhausen]

They must be bored at Micro$oft Towers - why not leave it alone?

You are only going to make it worse and probably open it up to hackers who will download all the User Ids again as they did some years ago - MORONS!

 

[Noel Gallagher]

I like the design.

I cant remember last time I logged in on a computer, normally deal with my emails on my phone.

 

[Jimz]

I've created a @outlook.com email address before all the names get taken up..

I managed to take [email protected] which I'm surprised about

 

[Macro]

It's just hotmail with a different skin. It doesn't even look like a very good skin.

no it's not

 

[CaptainRAVE]

So will Hotmail email addresses still work?

 

[paradisiac]

it seems to of integrated with windows 8 pretty well I think. im assuming my email addresses will keep working, but I could also get a @outlook.com one too?

 

[Glaucus]

They must be bored at Micro$oft Towers - why not leave it alone?

You are only going to make it worse and probably open it up to hackers who will download all the User Ids again as they did some years ago - MORONS!

They're ramping up for the release of win8, combining stuff, shuffling stuff. Skydrive is getting a supposedly big update before the release as well.


I don't get it, go to outlook.com and it just shows my hotmail inbox.

 

[Cosimo]

Old news:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18428270

 

[Macro]

delete...

 

[DirtyJester]

Old news:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18428270

Look out guys it's Van Simseek...

 

[Deadbeat]

I've created a @outlook.com email address before all the names get taken up..

I managed to take [email protected] which I'm surprised about

I can't seem to find the @outlook address option when linked to my old hotmail, any idea where the option is?

 

[paradisiac]

I can't seem to find the @outlook address option when linked to my old hotmail, any idea where the option is?

sign out and then sign in, it lets you register then

 

[Cosimo]

Look out guys it's Van Simseek...

Look out as Van Helsing is coming after you....

 

[Draeger]

On the sign up page it just throws me a message saying 'The phone number that you entered isn't valid in this country/region. Enter a different one.' despite the fact that the phone number is indeed, valid.

Pile of poo. I'll stick with Gmail.

 

[tom_e]

On the sign up page it just throws me a message saying 'The phone number that you entered isn't valid in this country/region. Enter a different one.' despite the fact that the phone number is indeed, valid.

Pile of poo. I'll stick with Gmail.

take the "0" off the front