Do
you remember when web email kicked off in the early days of dial up
connectivity? Yes sir, everyone wanted and rushed for an email address,
and the younger (and more foolish, I might add) ones among us realized
that all of the cool email usernames were already taken, leaving us to
agree to whatever the machine’s reasoning threw our way, such as younggirl1980@hotmail.com or boyscoutlover95@yahoo.com,
where they all sound so wrong on different levels in this day and age.
Embarrassing, even. Well, having said that, perhaps it might have been
half a decade since you decided to log into your Hotmail account, but
you might want to do so soon, as Microsoft has officially launched
Outlook.com on Tuesday, which would mark the demise of its predecessor,
Hotmail.
A minute of silence for the
faithful departed please. Taking approximately 7 months after Microsoft
unveiled a preview of the Outlook email service, the software giant
decided to announced the end of its beta run over in a blog post. Having
picked up Hotmail in 1997 (was it that long ago?), Microsoft claimed
that they will switch users from Hotmail over to the new Outlook service
“soon”, but it is a good thing that the Redmond, Washington company
will not force these affected users to change their emails to an
“outlook.com” address.
Be warned, though, change is definitely coming later this summer, so
you might want to mentally prepare yourself for a jump over to the
Outlook bandwagon after being in love with Hotmail for so long.
Microsoft said, “Everything from their @hotmail.com email address,
password, messages, folders, contacts, rules, vaation replies, etc. will
stay the same, with no disruption in service.” With over 60 million
folks who are actively using Outlook.com, hey, we certainly cannot argue
with such levels of approval, can we? Do you think you will miss
Hotmail?
