The free email service Hotmail, now known as Outlook.com, includes built-in tools to forward suspicious messages to a junk folder to protect your security and keep your inbox cleaner. If you discover ...

First things first: Yes, you can keep your @hotmail email address, if you want. Microsoft, however, will be leaving the Hotmail brand behind. The new Outlook.com inbox. (Click to expand image.) Credit ...

Hotmail, now called Windows Live Hotmail, is one of the largest and oldest webmail services on the Internet. Therefore, Hotmail.com is also one of the most recognizable email domain names on the Web, ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--After an hour-long discussion at a status meeting last month, the Hotmail redesign really boiled down to one key decision: one big ad, or two? After months of reworking the ...

Millions of Hotmail users globally face disruption. The outage started early on July 10, 2025. Users in the United Kingdom, United States, India, and other countries report login failures. Many are ...

Microsoft today announced that the migration from Hotmail to the new Outlook.com is officially complete and that there are now more than 400 million active Outlook accounts. The Redmond software giant ...

This may come as a surprise, but the new Microsoft Hotmail is actually pretty good. But how does it stack up to Google's email champion, Gmail? Here's a look at the good and bad of both services. The ...

Microsoft announced earlier this week that it is closing Hotmail and moving the "hundreds of millions" still using it to Outlook.com by this summer. The move isn't unexpected, but perhaps more sudden ...

Microsoft is moving all of its Hotmail users to Outlook.com by this summer. Here's what the hundreds of millions still using Hotmail need to know about the transition. Mary Jo Foley Mary Jo Foley has ...

Microsoft’s emailing service Hotmail has become so popular they decided to give it a big upgrade overhaul in the shape of Outlook.com. Hotmail is the second most used emailing service behind Google’s ...

Hotmail accounts are a staple to modern life, supplying people with easy-to-use no-nonsense email accounts. Tech giants Microsoft are responsible for running the service and for creating similarly ...