Microsoft Is Killing Hotmail And Migrating All Users To Outlook Instead (MSFT)

Microsoft announced this evening that its new web-based email service, Outlook.com, will leave its preview version and begin replacing Hotmail. The revamped Outlook.com launched six months ago, and Microsoft says it's done enough testing with the service to take it out of preview mode. The service got great reviews when it first launched. Microsoft's director of product management Dharmesh Mehta said in an interview the hundreds of millions of Hotmail users will be switched to Outlook by this su...