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August 3, 2012 09:04 pm GMT

Burning Question: Is Outlook.com Just A Reskinned Version Of Hotmail? Not Exactly.

outlook-hotmailPeople want to know: is the new Outlook.comjust a reskinnedand rebranded version of Microsoft's Hotmail, aka Windows Live Mail? Answer: Um, sort of. Maybe? OK, the truth is, it's a little hard to prove. But there are a few things worth pointing out. Microsoft stated that Outlook.com is "abreak from the past," and that it built "a brand new service from the ground up." But if it's an all-new, re-imagined, reinvented email service, then why doesOultook.com redirect you to a Live.com URL when you login? Microsoft could have at least switched the DNS around, right? There's also the fact that part of the brand-new experience takes you to older live.com webpages, still lacking the Outlook.com makeover. You can see this in action if you hit up the mobile site, for example, or try to import email from another service, like Gmail.But there's other evidence, too, which indicates that Outlook.com still involves a good bit of re-used Hotmail/Live Mail code.

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