Microsoft is putting a lot behind its new Metro-style Outlook.com email service, and with it comes a new chance to claim an email address that could actually be your real name, a proper noun, a proper word, or at least something devoid of random numbers tacked on to the end of it. (And to be clear, first.last@outlook.com is different than firstlast@outlook.com — plan accordingly.)
If you have a Hotmail account, that doesn't give you an advantage of reserving the same name@. Microsoft will give you the chance to use your Hotmail address as an alias and "rename" to an @outlook.com address, but that name isn't guaranteed to be the same. The race is on. The gold rush begins. Other phrases of encouragement... why are you still reading this?...
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