If Microsoft give up MSN-branded products after the launch of 'live", should I be going to lose my @msn.com Email?

Hi, if anyone here are from Microsoft and could you answer my qusestion?

If Microsoft give up MSN-branded products after the launch of 'live", should
I be going to lose my @msn.com Email?
Or could I be able to keep my @msn.com email as long as I like?

Thank you!

There are too many @msn addresses to convert over so I imagine they'll all
stay, same as Hotmail.

When they start it all up, any new accounts I would imagine would be @live
addresses.

I would imagine also that when the @live addresses become available, there
would be a rush of people trying to get the same username as they have for
Hotmail and MSN.

But then, we are talking about Microsoft and MSN... they could do something
really strange.

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> Hi, if anyone here are from Microsoft and could you answer my qusestion?
>
> If Microsoft give up MSN-branded products after the launch of 'live",
> should I be going to lose my @msn.com Email?
> Or could I be able to keep my @msn.com email as long as I like?
>
> Thank you!
>
>

<> wrote in message
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> Hi, if anyone here are from Microsoft and could you answer my qusestion?
>
> If Microsoft give up MSN-branded products after the launch of 'live",
> should I be going to lose my @msn.com Email?
> Or could I be able to keep my @msn.com email as long as I like?

For what it's worth, I read recently where Microsoft has decided to keep the
MSN brand alongside the Live.com initiative. My understanding is that they
felt the MSN brand equity was too high to simply discard it ...

"Theorbo" <> wrote in message
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> <> wrote in message
> news:7DE30354-D171-472F-B214-...
>> Hi, if anyone here are from Microsoft and could you answer my qusestion?
>>
>> If Microsoft give up MSN-branded products after the launch of 'live",
>> should I be going to lose my @msn.com Email?
>> Or could I be able to keep my @msn.com email as long as I like?
>
> For what it's worth, I read recently where Microsoft has decided to keep
> the MSN brand alongside the Live.com initiative. My understanding is that
> they felt the MSN brand equity was too high to simply discard it ...

Well duh. Sorry that sarcasm is not meant for you Theorbo, it is meant for
Microsoft. The whole Windows Live site/strategy/services has heretofore
been a head scratcher for most folks that I talk to. Microsoft took
something cool like VirtualEarth and flippin *BURIED* it under
local.live.com - huh?? Sorry but I really didn't get that one. The live
search capability is not bad. I use it as my primary search engine but
until they can do something noticeably better than Google, everyone else I
know will continue to use Google.

I do think they have opportunities once they get their ducks in a row. I
really like the Live Favorites add-in for IE7. Why there is a corresponding
web site for my Live Favorites I'm not sure. I always use them via the
plugin for my web browser. I also use Windows Live OneCare which is not bad
for a v1.0 product. It is certainly a lot less "in your face annoying" than
Symantec AV (which got the boot from my computers this year). I am also
intrigued by the potential of backing up data to a Live server/drive on the
internet for a fee. And finally, along the lines of Live Favorites, nirvana
for me would be to have more of my "state" stored on an internet server. I
use FeedDemon because it stores read/unread state on their server so when I
go between home PC/work PC/laptop the state of all the posts I have read and
not read is preserved. I also wish I had this for Outlook Express for
newsgroups. There's also the potential for some cool sidebar gadgets from
the Windows Live. How about a search gadget/agent that would allow me to
specify a search and then the gadget would be updated when new/updated web
pages are indexed that match the search criteria.

--
Keith