On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 13:50:53 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:

Despite Microsoft making it look like users had to move from Hotmail to
Outlook.com, that was not true. At some point, Microsoft may drop the
Hotmail.com and Live.com domains for e-mail accounts. If that happens,
and assuming they ample time for a warning (they didn't for the
downgrade on Skydrive disk space), I'll move my e-mails from Hotmail.com
to Outlook.com and go on with Outlook.com after they kill Hotmail.com.
However, I was NOT forced by Microsoft to move away from Hotmail.com.
Users just thought that was what they had to do and I'm pretty sure that
back then that Microsoft deliberately misled them to that conclusion.


Just curious as to why you wanted a Microsoft account rather than one
of the many other choices available.