Microsoft Not Dropping Hotmail Name

EveryNickIsTaken writes "CNET News.com is reporting that despite planning for months to ditch the name 'Hotmail' for 'Windows Live Mail,' Microsoft will keep the Hotmail name, renaming the service 'Windows Live Hotmail.' Along with the slight name change, MS will be modifying the interface to look more like Outlook's GUI."

Comments

Re:For Immediate Release

[Aladrin]

That has got to be the best response to this so far. Too bad Ive no mod points to give.

Re:Hotmails Interface is teh suck

[illuminatedwax]

Actually this legacy user stopped going to the page itself because I could see my Inbox from my MSN Messenger account and I never got anything but spam - and after 15 days they promptly deleted all my messages. 10 years of archived emails, LOST. FOREVER.

Of course I didn't go back, because I was seriously getting about 4 times as much spam in my inbox as the "spam box" - and believe me, I did thousands of messages worth of "training" Hotmail. I just don't think they care about filtering spam. Now I use gmail, and I get about 1 spam a day sneaking in (usually with no actual advertising content), which is a 99% success rate, with only 2 false positives in the entire history of my email account.

I don't see why anyone would use Hotmail over Gmail, period.

Re:ironic

[dosius]

It was undoubtedly chosen as a vowelization of HTML, in fact I think in the beginning (I had a hotmail address in 1996, it was my first e-mail address), it was punctuated HoTMaiL (don't quote me, it's been years).

-uso.