<p>Hotmail, the pioneering e-mail client has finally come to an end.</p><p>The service, founded by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith, was acquired by Microsoft in 1997 a year after its founding and remained one of the most popular email services until its closure; Hotmail had 360 million users as of last year, placing it second in size behind Gmail.</p><p>As part of Microsoft's company and product rebrand the company announced plans back in February to replace the client with Outlook.com, a web-based version of Microsoft's Outlook software, with a Metro UI design that closely matches Windows' latest design.</p><p>In a post on the Outlook blog, the company announced that the migration of Hotmail accounts to the new Outlook.com platform had been completed. Claiming over 400 million active accounts, 125 of which are accessed from mobile devices, Microsoft stated that it took 6 weeks to migrate 150 petabytes (150 million gigabytes) of email.</p><p><a href="http://www.soulculture.co.uk/lifestyle-2/tech/microsoft-closes-hotmail-following-migration-of-email-accounts-to-outlook-web-news/">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://www.mobiletor.com/2013/05/04/microsoft-outlook-hotmail/">Microsoft has a new Outlook, waves Hotmail goodbye</a> (Mobiletor.com)</p><p><a href="http://www.daynews.com/latest-news/2013/05/microsofts-hotmail-now-fully-phased-out-but-rebranded-to-outlook-com-19931">Microsoft&#039;s Hotmail Now Fully Phased out but Rebranded to Outlook.com</a> (Day News)</p><p><a href="http://technorati.com/technology/cloud-computing/article/outlookcom-goes-past-400-million-users/">Outlook.com Goes Past 400 Million Users</a> (Technorati)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dnQzn-uiQRonUbM0aIgE8gpBrI_qM&ned=us">10 additional articles.</a></p>