[LINK] did I miss decommissioning of Hotmail

[Roger Clarke]

Admittedly I've never thought about how to do a clean-out of my now 30yo 
address-book;  but a quick look finds 736 hotmail addresses.

That compares with a mere 5 oz.au !?

I'm building a new community at the moment, and 5 / 230 (2.17%) of the 
invitees have hotmail (and hotmail-only) addresses.

Traffic's apparent with 20 unique hotmail addresses since 1 Jan 25.

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On 1/9/2025 13:58, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
> Thanks Scott - just quoted your email - to those trying to correspond 
> with live and hotmail adresses - which were giving me error messages, now.
> 
> I take it yahoo ok?
> 
> M
> 
> PS I just googled and my duke was first non MS item to come up - I could 
> not be bothered reading any as did not pertain to mu address except I 
> got error messages when trying to send to others. This has only recently 
> started happening.
> 
> 
> On 9/1/25 11:44, Scott Howard wrote:
>> Microsoft renamed hotmail to outlook.com <http://outlook.com> in... 2013.
>>
>> hotmail.com <http://hotmail.com> (and live.com <http://live.com> and 
>> their other variations) all still work - it's just that the service 
>> has been branded as Outlook since... well... 2013.
>>
>> And no, that's not a typo.  This happened over 12 years ago, so you're 
>> probably wondering why My Duke decided now was a good idea to cover 
>> the rename of a personal email server that happened 12 years ago?  The 
>> simple answer is that this entire article is SEO spam and nothing more.
>>
>>   Scott
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 1, 2025 at 11:31 AM Marghanita da Cruz 
>> <marghanita at ramin.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     > Rollins Duke
>>     > Rollins Duke <https://www.bitrecover.com/blog/author/rollins/>
>>     > <https://www.linkedin.com/in/rollinsduke/>
>>     > Published: July 15th, 2025 • 6 Min Read
>>     >
>>     > Since Microsoft Hotmail has disappeared, many people are
>>     confused and
>>     > asking if is Hotmail still active or not? In this article, we are
>>     > going to have an in-depth discussion on this topic today. What
>>     > happened to Hotmail? its history, is it still active, is Hotmail
>>     going
>>     > away, or can you still access your Hotmail emails and other
>>     data, etc.
>>     >
>>
>>      From and more at
>>     https://www.bitrecover.com/blog/is-hotmail-still-active/
>>
>>     M
>>
>>
>>     --     Marghanita da Cruz
>>     Telephone: 0414-869202
>>     Email: marghanita at ramin.com.au
>>     Website: http://ramin.com.au
>>
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