First things first: Yes, you can keep your @hotmail email address, if you want. Microsoft, however, will be leaving the Hotmail brand behind. The new Outlook.com inbox. (Click to expand image.) Credit ...

You're savvy enough not to use your primary e-mail address to sign up for online offers, trial software, and shopping. Those e-mails are little more than spam magnets, so in the past, you might have ...

What happened to my old Hotmail email? If you’re trying to find your old Hotmail account, you might notice that it’s now called Outlook.com, which is part of Microsoft’s effort to merge its email ...

Microsoft recently announced a new feature that lets you create and maintain multiple phony Hotmail addresses from your main Hotmail account. The new alias service lets you create up to five different ...

Redmond is rolling out a preview of a new e-mail service that combines elements of Exchange and Hotmail into a Metro-influenced client. Mary Jo Foley Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 30 ...

I signed up for a Hotmail email address when I first got access to the Internet about 15 years ago. It wasn’t a great service, but it worked. I gave up on it after a while – Gmail was better, after ...

Our configuration changes have effectively resolved impact in targeted infrastructure. We’re now deploying the changes worldwide to resolve impact for all users ...

The average person maintains three different e-mail addresses, Microsoft says: one for personal use, another for business and yet another for keeping "junk mail away from a primary e-mail address." To ...

MSN Hotmail Plus is a paid-for upgrade to Microsoft's Web-based Hotmail email system. The upgrade removes advertising in Hotmail and the associated SkyDrive application, adds extra storage (10GB ...

Taking a new twist on an old antispam method, Microsoft plans to use white lists for its free Hotmail e-mail service. Days after Yahoo unveiled new mechanisms for controlling spam, or unsolicited junk ...