Just out is Microsoft's new email service, sign up now at outlook.com and you may just get your own snazzy, snappy name before all the decent (or indecent!) names go.

[url=http://www.zdnet.com/goodbye-hotmail-hello-outlook-com-7000001893/Article here: [/url

Cheers for that spot, managed to get my actual name for the first time ever on a free webmail service.

I've just gone to www.outlook.com to see what the fuss was about. On arrival it greeted me with what is obviously my hotmail email account, but with my real name on the top. My hotmail account is in another name. How? What? Eh?

I've just gone to www.outlook.com to see what the fuss was about. On arrival it greeted me with what is obviously my hotmail email account, but with my real name on the top. My hotmail account is in another name. How? What? Eh?

Quote ="Scooter Nik"I've just gone to www.outlook.com to see what the fuss was about. On arrival it greeted me with what is obviously my hotmail email account, but with my real name on the top. My hotmail account is in another name. How? What? Eh?'" [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19067634Hotmail to be replaced by Outlook[/url

Quote ="Scooter Nik"I've just gone to www.outlook.com to see what the fuss was about. On arrival it greeted me with what is obviously my hotmail email account, but with my real name on the top. My hotmail account is in another name. How? What? Eh?'" [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19067634Hotmail to be replaced by Outlook[/url

Yes, I got that bit.

But when I log in to Hotmail it uses my login name. My real name isn't used anywhere.
I log into Outlook and it uses my real name, not my Hotmail login - it redirects all my hotmail post there, but there is no reason it should know my name.

Although its a bit bright for my liking, i do quite like it. Quickly updated my email and transferred everything over in a flash. Just need mail for mac to start supporting it now!

You've sat on that computer for so many hundreds of hours, caressed its keyboard, intimately stroked its mouse and pressed its buttons, and you think it doesn't know who you are?

Are you sure you didn't provide those details when you signed up for Hotmail? In the database that sits behind all this stuff the field where that information is stored is one of two essential fields that has to be filled in. It can be filled with garbage but it has to have something in it. We've been through two generations of student email hosted by MS now and it's only in the last year or two that that data is being displayed on screens when they log in, but I've been sending it to them since the year dot.

I just got a new Outlook account, tremendous! F-u hotmail!

Could be.

Although I prefer FA's theory.

Thanks.

I quite like it, Didn't quite get there quick enough to be able to just use my name as my address so had to add a number to the end, But still got a better address than my hotmail account. Linked it up with my hotmail so I can access it with one click, although there doesn't seem to be a way to forward the emails sent to my hotmail account directly into my new inbox without having to switch accounts which is a bit annoying.

I change my mind. The new outlook causes download issues for emails on my iphone. It will download emails but doesn't seem to want to send them. Fsake! This is a business account too

You're running a business off a Hotmail account? If so then you deserve all you get.

Just fix the settings manually?