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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At last there’s a fix. Millions of Outlook users been plagued with failed restarts and missing emails since Microsoft released its mandatory January security updates. Now the company has confirmed a ...

At first, Dave Miller didn’t mind when Hotmail started treating him like a child. The 33-year-old software engineer had been using the Web-based e-mail service since 1995 — two years before Microsoft ...

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, ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. If you thought Microsoft was done with its summer announcements then think again.

Remember Hotmail? Of course you do. Back in the day you had an account, but you stopped using it--even if you could get past the spam overload, the teasing from your friends probably finally put you ...

The following is an excerpt from Adam L. Penenberg’s new book, Viral Loop: From Facebook To Twitter, How Today’s Smartest Businesses Grow Themselves. Simply by designing your product the right way, ...

Back in the days before Gmail, webmail on the Internet was really, really bad. Inboxes were limited to 10 or 20 megabytes, interfaces were slow and ugly, and the experience simply didn’t come close to ...