Monday, February 25, 2013

Microsoft officially retires Hotmail

<p>REDMOND, Wash., Feb. 20 (UPI) -- Microsoft has announced it's officially retiring its Hotmail brand and service in favor of the Outlook.com webmail service introduced last August.</p><p>Outlook.com is coming out of preview mode and is now available worldwide, the company said, so it will begin moving more than 300 million Hotmail users over to the new email service.</p><p>Hotmail users will get emails and other alerts informing them of the switchover to Outlook.com and its radically re-designed interface and organization tools, TIME magazine reported Wednesday.</p><p>Outlook.com currently has 60 million active members, Microsoft said, but when the transition is complete its hundreds of millions of users will put in on a par with Gmail's 425 million and Yahoo Mail's 281 million.</p><p><a href="http://www.upi.com/Science_News/Technology/2013/02/20/Microsoft-officially-retires-Hotmail/UPI-15201361388930/">Keep reading...</a></p>

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