The company had to migrate 150 petabytes of data to the ... visit this Microsoft page). Like Hotmail before it, Outlook.com is free to use, so if you're tired of Gmail or Yahoo!

What’s more, Hotmail users can transfer their account to @outlook.com or @live.com ... you had to create a new account and use an Xbox 360 to migrate all of your Zune Pass, Xbox 360 and Windows ...

Microsoft today announced that the migration from Hotmail to the new Outlook.com is officially complete and that there are now more than 400 million active Outlook accounts.

Outlook.com only had 60 million active accounts when it came out of preview mode in February, while Hotmail still had over 300 million. Microsoft spent around six weeks moving the final accounts ...

While the migration to Windows Web servers ... of Outlook came just a few weeks after the Hotmail acquisition, and the next version—Outlook '98—had to be adapted to work with Hotmail—leading ...

All Hotmail accounts have been upgraded to Outlook.com, Microsoft announced ... That was accomplished in just over six weeks, and the migration means that there are now more than 400 million ...

But users aren’t as enthusiastic about the new Outlook, resulting in slow adoption and migration. To Microsoft’s chagrin, many are still sticking with the classic Outlook app. And it appears Microsoft ...

with Outlook leaving its “preview” period ready for Hotmail users to migrate to. It should be a painless process for existing Hotmail users, who will have their mail archives transferred to the new ...

The thing is, migrating 17 years worth of emails ... Originally it was called Hotmail and later changed to Live, but @hotmail addresses are still available. Outlook is tied to your Microsoft account, ...