Outlook email : Tue Jul 31, 2012 7:43 pm  

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. Article here:

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. Article here:

Re: Outlook email : Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:21 pm  

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

Re: Outlook email : Tue Jul 31, 2012 11:33 pm  

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?

Re: Outlook email : Wed Aug 01, 2012 8:56 am  

Scooter Nik wrote: I've just gone to http://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? Hotmail to be replaced by Outlook

Scooter Nik wrote: I've just gone to http://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? Hotmail to be replaced by Outlook

Re: Outlook email : Wed Aug 01, 2012 10:03 pm  

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.

Re: Outlook email : Wed Aug 01, 2012 10:35 pm  

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!

Re: Outlook email : Thu Aug 02, 2012 10:50 am  

Scooter Nik wrote:

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.

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?

Re: Outlook email : Thu Aug 02, 2012 11:02 am  

Scooter Nik wrote:

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.

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.

Re: Outlook email : Thu Aug 02, 2012 1:55 pm  

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

Re: Outlook email : Thu Aug 02, 2012 2:06 pm  

vbfg wrote:

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.

Could be.

Although I prefer FA's theory.

Thanks.