
<p>Are you a Hotmail user a veteran of one of the world's first "cloud" email services? Prepare to be upgraded to Microsoft's new Outlook.com, as the company phases out the Hotmail brand.</p><p>Outlook.com has operated in "preview" mode for six months to resounding success, picking up a whopping 60 million users in that brief time period, according to Microsoft.</p><p>Read more from GlobalPost: Outlook is the new Hotmail, says Microsoft</p><p>"As Outlook.com comes out of preview, we're also announcing that we will soon upgrade every Hotmail user to Outlook.com," Microsoft said of the switch.</p><p><a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/business/technology/130219/beware-hotmail-fans-outlook-coming-your-email">Keep reading...</a></p>