Easy-to-use e-mail, calendar, and contacts for work or home, including Gmail, Hotmail, Exchange, and more.
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For example, internet email programs like Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo store your emails on their servers.
Both Hotmail.com addresses and Hotmail Plus accounts will keep working despite the switch, the company says.
Or Hotmail, one of the first Web services to give away e-mail for free.
Microsoft is in the process of migrating millions of Hotmail users to the new Outlook.com service.
Microsoft has registered 200 million Passport accounts, largely through its free Hotmail service and Windows XP.
The password details of thousands of Hotmail accounts have been leaked online, according to reports.
However, BBC News confirmed that many - including Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail addresses - were genuine.
To be sure, many of the internal functions of Outlook.com will be brought over from Hotmail.
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You can create a new account or sign in using an existing Hotmail address.
And so it's going to start moving more than 300 million Hotmail users over.
It's just that you're soon going to have to say goodbye to the old Hotmail.
Bill Gates is no dummy, quickly grasping that Hotmail's fantastic growth was something he couldn't compete with.
Microsoft has blamed an overheating data centre for a 16-hour shutdown of its Outlook and Hotmail systems.
Set up a free, Web-based account, such as Hotmail (www.hotmail.com) and go by that address when online.
To someone like Bill Gates, the idea doesn't seem as immediately "gettable, " or as unique, as Hotmail.
The court recognized that Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL and the rest are essentially our post offices these days.
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Internet ventures such as Hotmail, When.com and iDrive.com already offer e-mail, calendar and storage services over the Internet.
As well as owning Hotmail, earlier this year it purchased Jump, which writes software for online personal calendars.
But today it became apparent that it was not only Hotmail users affected.
Last week, Microsoft added a full-session security option to Hotmail, its e-mail service.
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Hotmail works the same way for those who haven't activated the always-on feature.
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At same time want to connect Skype with Outlook, with Lync, Xbox Live and other like Messenger and Hotmail.
The requests covered more than 137, 000 accounts on Microsoft's many services including Hotmail, Outlook.com, Xbox Live, Skype and others.
Although it was later acquired by Microsoft, Hotmail grew very large, very quickly.
Had Microsoft not acquired Hotmail, it would have been beaten at that game.
While Microsoft plans to eventually transition all Hotmail accounts over to Outlook.com, it recognizes the need for new users.
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"The only other things you tend to see are navigational queries, people searching for Hotmail or Google, " says Sullivan.
Exchange, iCloud Mail and AOL email are supported by Cloze, but not POP email accounts, like Outlook.com (formerly Hotmail).
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But by the end of the summer, the company intends to have moved all Hotmail users over to Outlook.com.
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