What is difference between .live and .outlook?

[Mosov]

When I bought my windows phone about a month ago, I registered on my email with a @live.com ending. I know realize that 'live' is outdated and @outlook.com is being used more. What should I do? Should I make a new email address with @outlook.com? Why does microsoft have so many email endings??!!

 

[Xeon Gutierrez]

I dont know, but I remember the days of .msn.

 

[Mosov]

.msn/.hotmail are outdated. but isn't .live outdated also? I'm unsure whether I should make a new email address with .outlook...my windowsphone is synced with my .live account though.

 

[Laura Knotek]

There is no reason to change your email address unless you want to. The hotmail.com and live.com addresses will function the same way. In fact, if you do decide to change your email address to an outlook.com address rather than using an alias, you'll have to reset you Windows Phone to factory settings. Outlook compare to hotmail - Microsoft Outlook

Get a new Outlook email address for your Hotmail account - Microsoft Windows

 

[Mosov]

There is no reason to change your email address unless you want to. The hotmail.com and live.com addresses will function the same way. In fact, if you do decide to change your email address to an outlook.com address rather than using an alias, you'll have to reset you Windows Phone to factory settings. Outlook compare to hotmail - Microsoft Outlook

Get a new Outlook email address for your Hotmail account - Microsoft Windows

I only recently created the account though when I bought my windowsphone, like a few weeks ago. Why would it let me make a new account on the .live address which is outdated? I don't want to reset my windows phone to factory settings but I also don't think it's a good idea to keep an outdated email ending.

 

[Laura Knotek]

I only recently created the account though when I bought my windowsphone, like a few weeks ago. Why would it let me make a new account on the .live address which is outdated? I don't want to reset my windows phone to factory settings but I also don't think it's a good idea to keep an outdated email ending.

It's up to you. I really do not care about the ending of the email address, but that's just me.

I used to have AT&T as my ISP, and my email address ended in @sbcglobal.net since it was SBC, not AT&T when I signed up for service. I did change it to @att.net.

On the other hand, one of my friends had AT&T as his ISP long before I did. His email address ended in @att.net. In the time period he's had AT&T, he would have needed to change to @ameritech.net, @sbcglobal.net and back to @att.net if he wanted to keep the ending of the email address "current". That just would have confused all his contacts. As it turned out, he never changed it, and what is current now was what was current years back.

I now prefer not changing my email address, since I'd rather not have to deal with the hassle of my contacts needing to update their address books.

 

[ttsoldier]

There is no difference. It will work the same way.

 

[Mosov]

and connected to this in my windowsphone I see Microsoft account with my live address, but I also have to add a .live account just for email?

 

[zolgi]

Live.com or outlook.com it's the same address.

 

[Mosov]

so why in the windowsphone there's both a 'live email app' and a 'outlook email app'? I'm really confused....

 

[Laura Knotek]

so why in the windowsphone there's both a 'live email app' and a 'outlook email app'? I'm really confused....

The "Outlook" setting in Windows Phone is for setting up an Exchange/Office 365 email account (corporate email). Set Up Exchange ActiveSync E-Mail on Windows Phone

 

[fwaits]

Windows Live was their last generation branding for all things Microsoft online. It was even the name for their search before it got re-branded Bing. I still use live.com because it's simple, short and easy to type, but outlook.com is simply the latest domain used for their email service, but hotmail.com and live.com still work through the same portal with no other differences.

 

[asma simou]

hii

 

[N_LaRUE]

The "Outlook" setting in Windows Phone is for setting up an Exchange/Office 365 email account (corporate email). Set Up Exchange ActiveSync E-Mail on Windows Phone

That's not entirely true. It's also an Outlook.com email.

All old emails addresses (.hotmail and .live) from MS are now part of Outlook.com. So you can keep using your old email address if you want. I would personally get an Outlook.com email simply for the Outlook icon for email.

 

[Laura Knotek]

That's not entirely true. It's also an Outlook.com email.

All old emails addresses (.hotmail and .live) from MS are now part of Outlook.com. So you can keep using your old email address if you want. I would personally get an Outlook.com email simply for the Outlook icon for email.

The other option is adding an outlook.com alias and using that in lieu of hotmail or live.

 

[N_LaRUE]

The other option is adding an outlook.com alias and using that in lieu of hotmail or live.

I haven't looked into that personally so didn't know about it. I managed to get the Outlook tile using my hotmail account so I'm happy anyway.