Mumbai: Microsoft has announced that it has successfully migrated 300 million active Hotmail users to the newer Outlook.com email service. The massive move over means there are now 400 million users of Outlook.com, according to a blog post announcing the milestone.
"Today, we're excited to announce that we've completed upgrading all Hotmail customers to Outlook.com. Coupled with the growing organic excitement for Outlook.com, this has pushed us to over 400 million active Outlook.com accounts, including 125 million that are accessing email, calendar and contacts on a mobile device using Exchange ActiveSync."
Naturally, a move of this nature means transfer of huge amounts of data as well. The transition meant 150 petabytes of data was migrated over to the Outlook servers in six weeks - a feat that's still boggling our minds. For those users who held on dearly to Hotmail, Outlook.com will bring a whole new experience.
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