Is Hotmail MSN?

[enipla]

I know nothing about it. Has it been bought by MSN? I ask for a friend with a new job with an elderly couple and they can’t remember their password to get into Hotmail. She says it keeps taking her to MSN.

[Duckster]

Hotmail (officially Microsoft Hotmail, previously Windows Live Hotmail and MSN Hotmail) is a free web-based email service operated by Microsoft as part of Windows Live. One of the first web-based email services,[3] it was founded by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith and launched in July 1996 as “HoTMaiL”.[4] It was acquired by Microsoft in 1997 for an estimated $400 million, and shortly after, it was rebranded as “MSN Hotmail”. The current version was released in 2011.[5]

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On July 31, 2012, Microsoft announced a preview ofOutlook.com, a new service that will eventually replace Hotmail.[13]

Outlook.com

[enipla]

@Duckster

Outlook.com - Wikipedia

Thanks will forward it on.

[F.U.Shakespeare]

So, will they now be charging to continue using ‘grandfathered’ hotmail addresses? I received a long legalese email that didn’t clear this up to me. I understand the deadline is 19 October.

[anson2995]

@enipla

I know nothing about it. Has it been bought by MSN? I ask for a friend with a new job with an elderly couple and they can’t remember their password to get into Hotmail. She says it keeps taking her to MSN.

Hotmail will become Outlook.com before the end of the year. It remains a free service, but it’s supposed to be a significant upgrade to the features and functionality.