

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.
