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    Is hotmail and live the same for e-mail

    Cannot trace my e-mail address of live.co.za

    0  Views: 1060 Answers: 1 Posted: 11 years ago

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    The mail service used to be just "Hotmail," but was brought under the Windows Live branding with a host of other services from Microsoft, making it "Windows Live Hotmail." Microsoft now offers several domains to free email account holders (@hotmail.com, @live.com, etc), but you should note that they are not interchangeable. Thus, John@hotmail.com and John@live.com are not necessarily the same person, even though they are both through the same service and accessed via the same website. The same is true for Yahoo, which offers @yahoo.com and @ymail.com email addressed, AOL, which offers @aol.com and @aim.com email addresses, etc.


    Finally, Windows Live Hotmail is the web interface while Windows Live Mail is the desktop application. Both can access your Hotmail/Live email, but the latter can also access email from other services/companies.


    Source:http://forums.cnet.com/7723-19169_102-376801/username-live-com-username-hotmail-com-what-difference/

    swadek

    I know this but it does not hlp me to access my Live e-mail. i had my address as ...@live.co.za. Does it make a difference if it is not .com. how can I obtain my login for windows live.
    Nicam

    Form all the information I could find, I see nothing that says the way you log in will have changed. It suggests that just the name of the service has rebranded.


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