Microsoft’s Outlook.com lures 1M users in 6 hours

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Outlook.com has seen more than 1 million people sign up for the service in just a few hours, Microsoft has said.

The sign-up figures for the successor to Hotmail were tweeted by @Outlook yesterday just over six hours after the new service was first announced.

The changes include the new e-mail address — @outlook.com — which
will replace the older @hotmail.com address, used by hundreds of
millions worldwide across its more than 10 years of its service. Users
can already “upgrade to Outlook.com” to keep their existing address.

The new Web-based e-mail service will eventually integrate Skype,
delivering a new rival to Gmail-embedded Google’s Talk service. Microsoft acquired Skype for $8.5 billion last year after European regulators signed off on the deal.

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