Users Being Migrated To New Version of Hotmail

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft has started work on migrating Hotmail users to a new version after testing the new system on select customers for almost two years. Microsoft stated in the article that more than 20 million users provided feedback to the new-look Hotmail. 'For now, Microsoft will give Hotmail users the option to continue using the old version if they don't want to switch to the upgraded version. However, at some point, everyone will be unilaterally migrated over to Windows Live Hotmail ... New users will be automatically signed up for Windows Live Hotmail but, like any user of the new service, they will get to choose from two user interfaces: a "classic" layout that closely resembles the old Hotmail; or the new interface, which was designed to look like Microsoft's Outlook e-mail and calendaring desktop application.'"

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Obvious Reasons. M$ is doomed.

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Why did Microsoft sit on their hands as Google slowly built up their capabilities to match those of Outlook? Why didn't Microsoft work on porting what they had done for Outlook to their Hotmail servers?

Because they would rather sell Outlook in a box, per user to big dumb companies. Office, one of M$'s two money makers is next. The only reason business "needs" Windoze is to run Office .... You see where this is going, don't you? They don't want you to think computers work without them. Web based competition shows them up.

M$'s late 1980's format lock in is over. Format wars sucked then and they suck now. Their OS monopoly will follow shortly. Good riddance, it can't happen soon enough.

Coming Soon: Microsoft's internal spam

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Do these desktop application have the microsoft useless celebrity gossip as the main page when you load them?

Depends on how long you've had your PC on the network and how many ad servers it has collected.

I'll bet M$'s $3 OS suite, which is supposed to compete with OLPC, will have all of that out of the box.