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 ...

Microsoft says its Outlook.com e-mail service is now officially available worldwide The venerable Hotmail service and brand will be going away. But Hotmail users will be able to keep their Hotmail.com ...

Hotmail users will be getting a new outlook on email before long. Late Monday, Microsoft announced that the preview phase for Outlook.com, the software giant’s new and improved Webmail service, is ...

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 ...

I signed up for a Hotmail email address when I first got access to the Internet about 15 years ago. It wasn’t a great service, but it worked. I gave up on it after a while – Gmail was better, after ...

Back in June, there were leaks about an alleged new Microsoft mail client -- "Newmail"-- something LiveSide.net described as a Metro-style Hotmail." On July 31, Microsoft took the wraps off a preview ...

Redmond is rolling out a preview of a new e-mail service that combines elements of Exchange and Hotmail into a Metro-influenced client. Mary Jo Foley Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 30 ...

Microsoft recently announced a new feature that lets you create and maintain multiple phony Hotmail addresses from your main Hotmail account. The new alias service lets you create up to five different ...

The average person maintains three different e-mail addresses, Microsoft says: one for personal use, another for business and yet another for keeping "junk mail away from a primary e-mail address." To ...

Microsoft has announced that users can now send and receive e-mail from a non-Hotmail address using Windows Live Hotmail. The feature, called EASI ID, is rolling out today and will be available ...

Taking a new twist on an old antispam method, Microsoft plans to use white lists for its free Hotmail e-mail service. Days after Yahoo unveiled new mechanisms for controlling spam, or unsolicited junk ...