Hotmail was one of the first web-based email services, launched in 1996 by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith.
It was acquired by Microsoft in 1997 and rebranded as MSN Hotmail.
We have already seen on how toconvert your Hotmail or Live or Microsoft account to Outlook.com Email Id.
However, not everyone was happy with the change from Hotmail to Outlook.com.
Some users preferred the old interface or found the new one confusing or cluttered.
How to Switch back to the old Hotmail Interface from Outlook.com?
you better adhere to these instructions:
Can you change a Hotmail address to Outlook?
it’s possible for you to simply upgrade your existing account to Outlook.com and keep your old Hotmail address.
Heres how:
Thats it!
You have successfully changed
You will then be redirected to the old Hotmail interface that you are familiar with.
you might still access your emails, contacts and calendar as before.
However, you will miss out on some of the features and updates that are available only on Outlook.com.
Whether you choose Hotmail or Outlook.com for your web-based email service depends on your personal preference and needs.
Both services offer reliable and convenient ways to communicate online.
Causes for Going Back from Outlook.com to Hotmail?
How to Revert or Undo Outlook.com to Hotmail?
Visithttp://www.outlook.comand sign-in with your @outlook.com address.
Visit the following page and manage the email ids associated with your Microsoft Account.
Your old Hotmail account is underOther email addresses.
ClickRemovelink below that id.
Some confirmation messages will follow and in that screen, pick the Removebutton.
Note: Dont worry!
You are not going to loose anything here.
You will also see a successful confirmation message saying that your Hotmail account is removed from yourMicrosoft account.
Login with those credentials.
There you get two options.
opt for option that says Create a new email address.
Now dont be fooled thinking that you should probably provide a new Hotmail Id altogether.
Just provide your old Hotmail email address you just removed and clickSave.
Update 2: It looks like Microsoft is slowly phasing out Hotmail and switching all users to Outlook.com address.
Here is the official message onwindows website.
Over time, Hotmail will be phased out and Outlook.com will be the free email service from Microsoft.
As part of this transition, weve removed the option to switch back to Hotmail.
So for now there is no way you might switch back to Hotmail.
Note: Here is my small thought.
Finally a small tip which you may like.
This will get back your Hotmail interface.
Problems for UK and Other Users?
The above post mentions steps for Hotmail account, but the steps are similar for Outlook.com also.
Luckily this kind of problem, doesnt arise with Hotmail users having @hotmail.com as their id.
you’re able to see a screenshot on where to change the country specific tweaks below:
