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Microsoft Not Dropping Hotmail Name

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the rose-is-a-rose-is-a-rose dept.

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."

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  1. Re:ironic by dosius · · Score: 1, Redundant

    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.

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