has a completely different look and navigation structure than Hotmail - one that builds off the cleaner, tile-based look of Microsoft’s latest operating system, Windows 8.
Users will have the option to switch to a “” address but will not be required to, wrote Microsoft’s director of product management, David Law.īut plenty will change. Users will be able to keep their addresses if they want, as well as their passwords, messages, folders, contacts and other settings. Hotmail users who don’t make the switch themselves will be migrated to by the summer, the company said in a blog post Monday.
Microsoft is moving fast to replace its long-standing webmail service with the new - a program that’s grown to 60 million active users during it six-month preview period.
