{"id":3057,"date":"2013-05-03T21:27:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T21:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/microsoft-phases-out-hotmail-for-outlook-com\/"},"modified":"2013-05-03T21:27:31","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T21:27:31","slug":"microsoft-phases-out-hotmail-for-outlook-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/microsoft-phases-out-hotmail-for-outlook-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft phases out hotmail for outlook.com"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Microsoft’s Hotmail, the free webmail service used by hundreds of millions of people around the world, was phased out Friday, as the US tech giant completed a rebranding to Outlook.com.<\/p>\n

“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 late Thursday.<\/p>\n

“Coupled with the growing organic excitement for Outlook.com, this has pushed us to over 400 million active Outlook.com accounts.”<\/p>\n

The transition began in February, when Microsoft began a test of moving users to the new Outlook.com services.<\/p>\n

“Hotmail was still one of the most widely used services, with over 300 million active accounts,” Craddock said.<\/p>\n

“This made the magnitude of the process incredible, maybe even unprecedented. This meant communicating with hundreds of millions of people, upgrading all their mailboxes — equaling more than 150 million gigabytes of data — and making sure that every person’s mail, calendar, contacts, folders and personal preferences were preserved in the upgrade.”<\/p>\n

Outlook.com addresses will be better synched to other Microsoft services, such as its Bing search engine and Skydrive, the cloud storage system.<\/p>\n

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