Hotmail being Updated to Outlook (email, gmail, server, Office)
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It looks like Microsoft is trying to revive its Hotmail e-mail accounts by launching Outlook (not to be confused with what's in MS Office Suite). Despite the transition to Outlook, we will still be able to keep our old hotmail addresses as well.
I am happy that I will still be able to have an @hotmail.com address, even as I shift over to Outlook. Why? I have had my hotmail account for 13 years! Yes, that's right, 13 years! I like to keep it as my personal e-mail address so that people never have any questions on where to contact me. Now, if I were to apply for a job that required some computer skills, it would definitely be better to have a gmail account. Hotmail accounts seem to be old-school for the less tech savvy that never changed to gmail. However for my personal use, I will keep hotmail as long as it is around. This is not because I do not like change, it is just for reassurances that my contact information is available for whomever needs to contact me. Note: My e-mail address is also on many lists so changing my e-mail address just to look more savvy seems kinda silly. Agree?
Anyway, do you all seem optimistic that Outlook will catch on? Or will gmail continue to do better? Or perhaps both will eventually loose out to further competition? Or perhaps only time will tell!
I never did like hotmail. As far as it becoming outlook? Meh. Anyone remember Juno and their email program and advertising crap?
Yes SD, I had JUNO in 1996 when I had to pay long distance phone charges to connect to servers in Kansas City, MO or Lawton OK or Ft. Smith, Ark. Lawton was the cheapest so I used it all the time. I learned not answer the emails online, I would down load the messages, answer all the messages offline then reconnect and send all my replies at once. I left JUNO before their advertising started. 1997 I had Hotmail when they limited the amount of space you could use without paying for more space. I was getting so much spam that I had to get on Hotmail daily to delete the spam. Came back from vacation and the spam exceeded my alloted space and my account was closed. I never went back.
I wish Microsoft wouldn't recycle names like this. Its already difficult enough trying to get out of someone how they access their mail when they don't know the difference between Outlook, Outlook Express, and web-based Hotmail.
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