I just read an article on the
following website that surprised me a bit.
You may find the news interesting as well.
More than a decade and a half after it was
first introduced, Hotmail is
officially no more.
In a blog post
yesterday, Microsoft announced it had
completed the upgrade of hundreds of millions of users from the old Hotmail
platform to the new Outlook.com – a process, according to Microsoft, that
involved transferring 150 million gigabytes of data. Hotmail account
holders will be able to keep their old Hotmail address, and all settings on Hotmail
mobile and Web apps will automatically be updated.
The jettisoning of Hotmail – and the
introduction of the sleek, shiny Outlook.com – is an effort to bring
Microsoft's mail service up to date with the Windows 8 operating
system.
Naturally, though, the move hasn't made
everyone happy. Some users have circulated petitions asking Microsoft to
preserve Hotmail; others have createdFacebook pages or taken to Microsoft
forums to express their frustrations. ("The forced 'upgrades' have
begun," one forum-goer recently wrote. "But I
simply will not lie down and say, 'Yes, Microsoft, I like this because you tell
me I should.' ")
In a blog post
yesterday, Microsoft's Dick Craddock acknowledged that when
any "widely-us
ed consumer
service makes any substantial change," people are going to kick up a fuss.
But Craddock urged users to give the new Outlook a chance.
"It's gratifying in a sense because it
means those customers loved the previous set of changes we made," he wrote. "With a
communication service that is constantly evolving, we try to strike the right
balance between bringing out major improvements and keeping true to what our
customers love. Our belief is that as people start using the new experience,
they will come to love it even more than they loved Hotmail."
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