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 ...

When Microsoft introduced a preview version of a fresh and inventive webmail service it called Outlook.com last August, it was pretty clear that it was telling the world that it intended to start ...

Hotmail used to let you access it using Outlook or Outlook Express—that was one of the reasons I used to use them exclusively about four years ago. Now a couple of readers have told me that their free ...

In a disruption that has impacted millions of users worldwide, Microsoft’s email service platform Hotmail — now integrated within Outlook — experienced a major outage early Thursday, July 10, 2025.