Yarr The Pirate! :: View topic - Microsoft Unveils Outlook.com, Hotmail's Successor

Man, hotmail. That sure brings back memories. It was my first e-mail address, as I'm sure it was for many of you. I think I got my first account back in '98 or '99. This was back when an old friend of mine and myself ran a Pokemon based series of sites where people logged into chatrooms and RP'd out battles between the pokemon. How nerdy is that?! Was in high school at the time. I can only imagine what some of those e-mails would look like, if I were to be able to view them now.

Sadly, the whole "you don't use it, you lose it" philosophy those e-mail accounts had back then cause my accounts to get wiped on a few occasions. Oh well.

Author:	Yarr [ Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:00 pm ]
Post subject:	Microsoft Unveils Outlook.com, Hotmail's Successor
http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-out ... boxes.aspx Its a good old fashioned land grab for email addresses. I dont really use webmail, but I still grabbed my name. I couldnt get my first and last name (Sadly I share a name with a famous Beachboy) but I did get Yarr at outlook dot com and I was pretty surprised I got my wifes firstname and lastname @outlook.com. I also got one for my brother. Ill probably never use yarr at outlook dot com since I have yarr at yarrthepirate dot com. Anyway, did anyone else grab an email address beforet he good ones are taken?

Author:	Krellis [ Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:27 pm ]
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Yarr wrote: Anyway, did anyone else grab an email address beforet he good ones are taken? Nah, cause it's still hotmail! I got my full name a few ways, but I doubt I'll ever use it. Gmail all the way!

Author:	Ketrebu [ Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:29 pm ]
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Can't get any variation of my (real) name @ outlook.com - how long has it been up? EDIT: Actually nvm I got one by putting a dot in there. EDIT2: It looks exactly like hotmail except it's Metro, lol. I really don't like Metro because it's currently busy fucking over Windows 8.

Author:	Yarr [ Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:58 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Microsoft Unveils Outlook.com, Hotmail's Successor
meh, its all webmail to me. I dont care whos behind it.

Author:	Ketrebu [ Tue Aug 14, 2012 4:28 pm ]
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I've been using this some more, and despite the Metro nonsense it's cool. You can also rename your old @hotmail.com account to an @outlook.com alias if you like (don't do this if you use a Windows Phone btw, it even warns you on the site). I set up an alias for now though so my account stays the same but my e-mail address is now much nicer looking. Best feature by far though is that it now exposes Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync as a connection option instead of POP/IMAP. This is great because Hotmail would only do crappy old POP which can't sync "read" e-mails across devices. I've been reading some of my earliest e-mails out of curiousity and there's some crazy stuff in there from a decade ago.

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Author:	Ridere [ Wed Aug 15, 2012 8:18 am ]
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Man, hotmail. That sure brings back memories. It was my first e-mail address, as I'm sure it was for many of you. I think I got my first account back in '98 or '99. This was back when an old friend of mine and myself ran a Pokemon based series of sites where people logged into chatrooms and RP'd out battles between the pokemon. How nerdy is that?! Was in high school at the time. I can only imagine what some of those e-mails would look like, if I were to be able to view them now. Sadly, the whole "you don't use it, you lose it" philosophy those e-mail accounts had back then cause my accounts to get wiped on a few occasions. Oh well.

Author:	Dmitry [ Wed Aug 15, 2012 7:43 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Microsoft Unveils Outlook.com, Hotmail's Successor
Ridere wrote: Man, hotmail. That sure brings back memories. It was my first e-mail address, as I'm sure it was for many of you. I think I got my first account back in '98 or '99. This was back when an old friend of mine and myself ran a Pokemon based series of sites where people logged into chatrooms and RP'd out battles between the pokemon. How nerdy is that?! Was in high school at the time. I can only imagine what some of those e-mails would look like, if I were to be able to view them now. Sadly, the whole "you don't use it, you lose it" philosophy those e-mail accounts had back then cause my accounts to get wiped on a few occasions. Oh well. I still have my account from back then. I don't remember why I signed up for it, but I still use it for things today. Usually just online shopping now for sites that make you sign up, so the spam can just go to it lol

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