![]() Hotmail, (known as “MSN Hotmail”) was renamed “Windows Live Hotmail”. Then Microsoft decided to de-emphasize “MSN”, and replaced it with the “Windows Live” brand. At the same time, MSN Hotmail was integrated, or at least associated, with a number of other MSN branded services, like Instant Messenger, the MSN.com homepage, and more. 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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