TechStop » Hotmail http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/techstop Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:47:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Will rebranding Hotmail as Outlook bring users back? http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/techstop/will-rebranding-hotmail-as-outlook-bring-users-back/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/techstop/will-rebranding-hotmail-as-outlook-bring-users-back/#comments Tue, 14 Aug 2012 08:35:21 +0000 Joshua Wood http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/techstop/?p=303 Hi all,

In what is hailed as a smart move for Microsoft, they have rebranded Hotmail as Outlook. It’s true, Outlook is well known and well liked and Hotmail is, well, let’s just say if I was still an active Hotmail user, I would quite possibly be laughed at or told to get with the times.

Apparently Hotmail still has the largest amount of email subscribers… I’m not so sure that counts as several people I know have one and never check it. They use their Hotmail address when forced to enter an email address online and they’re worried they will get spam from it… essentially, it’s their designated junk mail box.

So, will rebranding as Outlook rebuild some active users? Perhaps. The interface is much cleaner, has several viewing options, enhanced spam control and social media integration among other things.

Have you converted a Hotmail account to an Outlook account and Outlook email address? Or have you always been an active Hotmail user… and you’re willing to admit it? Let me know!

Until next time,
TechStop (JW)

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The guys over at venturebeat.com have put together a really nice blog about their expected rise of the bandwidth that cloud services are going to use. Among the many things that this site offers one of them is the data that Cisco has done a study and believes that cloud traffic will increase by more than 10 times its current Internet traffic use by 2015.. That is hard to believe. I know that Cisco is betting on applications using more bandwidth and they will but this seems excessive even for a Cisco projection. We will see though.

http://venturebeat.com/2011/11/29/cisco-global-cloud-traffic/

Until next time,
TechStop (JW)

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