Most people kept on calling it “Hotmail”. More correctly, it was called HoTMaiL - note the capitalization - a bizarre kind of reverse acronym mash-up referencing HTML mail. The moniker “Hotmail” is what stuck.Īfter purchasing Hotmail, Microsoft integrated it with their burgeoning line of on-line services, and branded them all with “MSN” – the MicroSoft Network. Thus, what we used to call “Hotmail” was technically renamed as “MSN Hotmail”. The email service we typically refer to as Hotmail was originally called … Hotmail. Hotmail begat MSN Hotmail begat Windows Live Hotmail But there’s more to it than that.įor the record: none of this involves losing any email. That’s relatively easy, albeit confusing. is what we once knew as Hotmail, which was also called “MSN Hotmail” and was also “Windows Live Hotmail”. Microsoft continues a long history of confusing the heck out of us with the names they choose for their services, and then changing those names as they go along.
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