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What I did last time was to set up an auto-reply to my contact list that would let them know I changed addresses. You can forward your email if you want or just look through and find the people you want to know and do a BCC mailing to tell everybody. You should also archive all your email somewhere so that when you turn off your account you have access to the stuff you had previously.
As far as I know, yes, Microsoft is retiring hotmail and I would use the outlook.com address instead of the hotmail one (plus outlook.com sounds more professional than hotmail).
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It doesn't matter what you change it to. The filth at 'IT Scam Board' will find it and bombard it.
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I think hotmail is being phased out and retired and outlook is the way forward to align with the whole Office365 etc. I would use the outlook one.
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Microsoft retires hotmail doesn't mean your email address will "expire" or something. You can continue using your @hotmail.com address, and it will be supported.
However, they're pushing people to use the @outlook.com address, and you can do what you want.
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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Yes. I still have an @netscape.net email address from thousands of years back that now goes to aol.com - I don't use for anything except emergency backup for my gmail and hotmail/outlook accounts but it still works.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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When I last did it, I set up both accounts to read to different folders in Outlook - the new account to the Inbox, and the old account to a folder with the old email name: in your case I'd call it "Gmail". When anything appeared in the Gmail folder, I'd either reply and remind them of the new address or decide I didn't care to get messages from them any more. After three or six months, nothing I wanted any more was coming through so I deleted the account.
You can also set up an auto-reply rule in Outlook to send a reminder automatically - but that can be risky if you ever receive spam! This shows you how: http://www.extendoffice.com/documents/outlook/498-outlook-auto-reply.html[^]
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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Microsoft is/will be doing the same thing (maybe not the ads thing .. yet), they're just less transparent about it.
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Yes - my first thought was Gmail to Hotmail is reminiscent of the frying pan and fire analogy.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I don't think that it will provide you any benefit, it won't be long before Microsoft does the same... anyway on hotmail you can setup plenty of Aliases ie use different addresses pointing to the same one, so xx@outlook.co, xxx@live.com or what ever does not matter at all.
Personally for proper stuffs I use my own domain emails, for all the rest I use a junk hotmail addresses and aliases, they can hack it, spy it to their heart content, it's just full of useless junk.
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As mentioned above, an alternative approach would be to use your own domain rather than a specific email provider's domain. I currently use Exchange Online as my provider (I pay $8/month for unlimited storage, and unlimited aliases with one being designated as the alias I send emails from), but since I am using my own domain, I can always change my provider without changing my email address.
As far as handling the people aspects, let people know your new address, if you have a contact list (making sure to BCC them, of course). Then, set an auto-reply to say "hey, this is an auto-reply to let you know my email has changed... contact me to get my new address" (don't indicate your new email address in the auto-reply, as that may lead to somebody unscrupulous getting their hands on it). Also, set your old address to forward emails to your new address.
Or, in checklist form:
- Use a domain you own.
- BCC your contacts to let them know your new address (from your old address).
- Set an auto-reply to indicate the address is old.
- Auto-forward emails to the new address.
- Change all your accounts to use the new address.
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My primary e-mail service is provided by a small company that is staffed by volunteers.
In 10+ years, I've not had any problems with the service, and they're decent chaps, who I doubt would do more than laugh, if they got requests from people who have decided that protecting me means treating me as a criminal.
IMO, smaller is better. The big boys have got enough income, and I trust them less.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Shameel wrote: 2. What would be my email address? is it xxx@hotmail.com or xxx@outlook.com or it simply doesn't matter? I have tried and I received emails sent to both Ids in my inbox. Is MS trying to retire the hotmail alias? In that case I should start using outlook.com alias, right?
when it launched i was able to get common.variant.of.my.name@outlook.com. I be astonished if was still available ~20 years after hotmail launched; so I'm all but certain hotmail users didn't get a free matching @outlook.com address.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I would go buy my own domain(fairly cheap) and setup my own email server in my house and use that. If your really worried.
PS. I own my own domain. It works for me. Yes I actually pay for my email. But isn't that what it is. MY email?
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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If you're going to switch just for that, then better switch to a private email server with your own domain, if you read the terms of service of outlook.com and it didn't say that they share your information with advertiser, they could still share your information with US government (although this is true for any US based company), because they may be forced to by law.
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Shameel wrote: it shares your personal information with the government
So does Microsoft
Shameel wrote: and in advertisements
There is a link in the update notification to opt out. If you missed it there, here it is: https://plus.google.com/settings/endorsements?hl=en[^]
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Moshe Katz wrote:
Shameel wrote: it shares your personal information with the government
So does Microsoft
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Not only Microsoft, but Google and all the others. No such thing as a free lunch - you pay by letting them sell your ID to advertisers. NAI is a joke. You try to opt-out and some let you and others ignore it. What I don't like is they store any opt-out in a cookie instead of a "Do not send" database at the advertiserrs site. Erase the cookie and the opt-out disappears.
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I put in a high priority ticket over 48 hours ago and have not received a response of any kind.
Can't list or transfer files using FileZilla, and can't publish. The site has been up and down for days getting a 500 Internal error.
In the last 6 months they have been down for >3 days at a stretch more than once and no email saying they were having problems nothing.
A while back they changed a security feature that rendered my site unusable and I would not have known had a friend not told me of the problem.
My site is a personnel site and there's nothing on there that will change the fate of mankind but still...
They totally suck!
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I got my stuff on hostfactory.ch - They provide responses on normal tickets within an hour, on weekends and at night as well. I am very satisfied with them (They send me an email with everything affecting my virtual web server) and I'd recommend them to you, if only their UI would be available in english.
You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colon."
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I've got a new provider lined up but have to get domain name transferred and it's just whenever BizHostNet gets around to releasing it so the new provider can pick it up, something about an authorization key.
I'm more than disgusted with BizHostNet, you would think if they were having that much problems they would try a little harder to keep people happy and ride the problem out with them but I don't think they care and if they don't care I sure as hell don't care.
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It's the Sony ICD-PX333 Ultra Portable Digital Voice Recorder, and apparently, it's a feature of the microphone:
* - Built-in (mono) microphone captures thoughts, dictations and other details with great clarity
I might get one just so I can get that "great clarity" that I'm often lacking 
Marc
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My ex-wife was able to do that for years, she could get me to the point where I was just about ready to go postal and then quit whatever she was doing to drive me to that point. She was uncanny I tell ya. 
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I read "captures thoughts, dictations and other details with great clarity" as worrying, I don't want my thoughts captured - let them run free.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Went to a dinner last night where the entertainment was a local A Capella group, their first song: "Africa".
Veni, vidi, abiit domum
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: the entertainment was a local A Capella group, their first song:
I'd have started a Laurel & Hardy food fight, to prevent them getting as far as a second song.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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