Microsoft’s Hotmail, the free webmail service is dead, as it was phased out oon Friday 3rd March, as the US tech giant completed a rebranding to Outlook.com. Hotmail was still one of the most widely used services, with over 300 million active accounts.
“We’re excited to announce that we’ve completed upgrading all Hotmail customers to Outlook.com,” Microsoft’s Dick Craddock said in a blog post.
“Hotmail was still one of the most widely used services, with over 300 million active accounts,” Craddock said
The transition began in February, when Microsoft began a test of moving users to the new Outlook.com services. Outlook.com addresses will be better synched to other Microsoft services, such as its Bing search engine and Skydrive, the cloud storage system.
“Coupled with the growing organic excitement for Outlook.com, this has pushed us to over 400 million active Outlook.com accounts.” Craddock said.