Leave Windows Live Hotmail and Revert Back to Classic MSN Hotmail
Windows Live Hotmail which was briefly named as Windows Live Mail during beta, is officially launched as final version. Windows Live Hotmail is the new web-based email service from Microsoft which is intended as the replacement for the classic old MSN Hotmail existed since 1995. Major enhancements in Windows Live Hotmail are extensive use of AJAX for interactive feature and free 2GB email storage space. From 7 May 2007, all new Hotmail accounts will be created as Windows Live Hotmail accounts, while existing MSN Hotmail users can update to Windows Live Hotmail by clicking on the “Join Windows Live Hotmail” button below the Hotmail logo, with beta users automatically switched.
However, the user interface of Windows Live Hotmail is not as intuitive, as responsive or as attractive as you would have expected. After switching over, you may regret your choice and would like to revert back to the old classic Hotmail interface. Luckily, Microsoft still provide a way to switch back to MSN Hotmail, with the downside that you may lose your free 2GB space. Here’s how to do it.
There’re 2 version of Windows Live Hotmail - full version with all the AJAX capabilities such as address auto-complete, reading pane, color schemes and keyboard shortcuts, and classic version which pretty much resemble the user interface the original Hotmail. In fact, classic Windows Live Hotmail interface version is recommended for users with slow internet connection or a monitor that is under 1024 x 768 pixels. If you want to keep the 2GB free space, this is the best option to opt for.
Switch to classic version of Windows Live Hotmail
Simply look for “Switch to classic” link located in the bottom left corner, and you’re done.
Switch back to original MSN Hotmail
If you want to revert back to MSN Hotmail, and don’t care whether you have the free 2GB mail space, click on Options on the top right corner (in full version, a pull down menu will be shown, where you should further click on More Options). You will see the following message.
For full version:
You’re using the full version of Windows Live Hotmail.
Click here to try the classic version, which is good for slow connections.
You can also Switch to MSN Hotmail.
For classic version:
You are using the classic version of Windows Live Hotmail.
Have a fast connection and want more features? Try the full version to see message previews in your inbox. (It’s free, too.)
You can also Switch to MSN Hotmail.
So to revert, click on “Switch to MSN Hotmail”. In the Switch Back page, confirm by clicking on Switch back button. And you’re back to original MSN Hotmail.
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May 23rd, 2007 12:32
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May 27th, 2007 23:49
A friend of mine has swithed to windows live.The storage has increased to 2 GB. unfortunately, the windows live interface is not showing. This means that he can not take advantage of the new features of the newer version. Can this be rectified, and how?
May 28th, 2007 01:15
Try to clear cache?
May 28th, 2007 02:57
yes I tried clearing the cache. As a matter of fact, I cleared everything. Tye problem still persists. Not sure what it is.
June 25th, 2007 19:16
This is a bad website which is worst than anything.when a mail come u can’t read it.it is small.size-1.4 of the letters.who ever is installing it i reccomend you to never install this.
Regards
Rachita Singh
June 25th, 2007 19:19
u r killing ur self by this website.forget this website it is bullshit
July 4th, 2007 12:09
This is a lot of irritating rubbbish.I hate it.
July 10th, 2007 13:34
But I don’t see “switch to old version” anywhere in the options. Then how am i gonna change it back to old version? I’m really sick of the windows live. it keeps bothering me. I just prefer the old version.
July 20th, 2007 02:40
Nope, the option to switch back to MSN Hotmail is now gone. You can switch between full and classic views *within* Windows Live Hotmail but you can’t get back anymore to the MSN Hotmail account. Even accounts that got grandfathered in back on Nov 2004 when Microsoft dropped WebDAV support for free Hotmail accounts cannot get back to the MSN Hotmail account. The result is that you can no longer use Outlook [Express] to access free Hotmail accounts if you switched or signed up to Windows Live Hotmail.
July 22nd, 2007 01:09
Vanguard I’m not sure if you’re right because I have several hotmail accounts, and at one account I don’t see the “switch to old version” anywhere in the options, while another does. What’s the explanation too that?
July 28th, 2007 09:24
Help!!! Ever since I switched the new hotmail I can no longer even get in. I have had the same email address since public school, and I am in my twenties now! I am devastated…
August 3rd, 2007 05:25
I am an elderly user, I have only been able to get Live Hotmail once,which I did not like. After the first time just a blank page.Therefore I cannot follow the instructions given to revert back to Classic Hotmail, I am almost in tears trying to get back.I have messages to send and read, but cannot do either,WHY make life so complicated???
August 3rd, 2007 05:29
Just read your reply, rather a rude comment, , because I haven’t just “said it.”As you have implied.(Where did I say it???
August 3rd, 2007 14:55
Hi,
My grandmother has started using the internet,and we set up a hotmail account for her so she could ta;lk to relies overseas via email.Somehow she has managed to get into the new windows live hotmail and i cant change her back.last night i got so frustrated i changed my msn hotmail to the new live hotmail and went to options and there was the link to change back,so i did….but for some reason this link isnt available for my grandmother,i have tried so many different things and im at my wits end.If she originally had msn hotmail why cant she change back now?why is the link in mine and not hers?
August 4th, 2007 10:26
PLZ HELP ! I HATE THE NEW HOTMAIL AND WHEN I CLICK THE OPTIONS BUTTON, IT DOESNT SHOW SWITCH BACK TO MSN HOTMAIL! I AM SOOO FRUSTRATED RIGHT NOW! HELLPPPPP PLZ!!!!
August 4th, 2007 13:39
i have swithed to windows live.The storage has increased to 2 GB. unfortunately, the windows live interface is not showing. This means that i can not take advantage of the new features of the newer version. Can this be rectified, and how
August 9th, 2007 10:31
I am a user of the full version of hotmail…
WHAT A RIPOFF!!! Changing back to msn hotmail isnt an option, and I hate the new version so much I am willing to create a new email address just so I dont have to spend one more day using the so called new and improved rubbish.
August 12th, 2007 05:03
I feel bad for everyone who has even attempted to use this new live version. It SUCKS! I can’t get to my mail either and I am more than a little ticked off as I had mailed at least 20 resumes using my hotmail account just the day before it changed. If you have messenger it will show you your messages, unfortunately you cant access them! I have sent help messages over and over, deleted and restarted every Windows program on my computer and there is simply no way to access my hotmail account again. I vote with you marina lets all leave hotmail and go to yahoo…..its easy and RELIABLE!
August 15th, 2007 13:53
hello i hate this new hotmail because i have just created a new account and it put me on windows live hotmail .
can some 1 please help me thanks
August 15th, 2007 22:56
you got to be kidding! you call live hotmail good?! my advice…click on it, then push the delete button, then repeat again to make sure its gone! it is absolutely a waste of our time and money! SHAME ON YOU FOR CREATING IT!!!
August 16th, 2007 04:45
Easy…Use Yahoo or Google…
August 16th, 2007 15:20
Well now, ya really screwed up this time fellas! just tried your little live hotmail, and now i cannot even access my account. Seems to me, in good standing, someone outta kick your asses clear to hell and back for even creating such worthless piece of trash! What the hell were you folks thinking?! Anyhow, leave it to the kids to screw up something that once worked just fine! Damn it!!!
August 18th, 2007 03:11
This new interface is a nightmare!!!!!!!
August 18th, 2007 18:42
I got so fed up with this new bullshit that i switched websites, as well as e-mail accounts. My new site ( EXCITE.COM) has absolute awesome capabilities, and my e-mail account is nearly 3 times the msn hotmail capacity. It only takes a couple of easy minutes to set up your account, which is free, and you even get unlimited actual person-to-person support if ever you are stumped by anything. As much as i hated to leave msn, it was time to move on to a site where my emails were not fucked with, and i say that VERY openly. Fuck with me, and i can handle it, but fuck with my personal emails, which is my only connection to my family, and you over step the ultimate line. In my exact words to msn and all of your loyal supporters….fuck off asswipes! and if ya wanna report me, go for it, just dont send me an email telling me cause i’ll just delete it, you shit bags! fuck off msn! fuck off!!!!
August 19th, 2007 11:34
i can’t stand the live version it sucks
August 19th, 2007 18:28
well,
I also face the same problem with this new version
clicking the delete button won’t work
waste of time nonsense
August 20th, 2007 05:57
Actually, it is still there, but i belive only for people who have used MSN Hotmail (not live).
I switched and it was really buggy, i went into options and it was there.
Please clarify, Davo
September 1st, 2007 15:27
ok, i know not many people are using dial up, but the old MSN Hotmail is WAY faster than the new Classic Hotmail. iknow, iknow, with broadband who cares, but one day you NEED to check your email via old modem, you’d really really want mSN Hotmail
September 3rd, 2007 01:53
new hotmail is a devil for old users like me who use dial up and lower versions of windows……..i haven’t understood what is this live actulally means HOTMAIL MEMBERS GIVE US OLD USERS OUR OLD HOTMAIL INBOX
September 11th, 2007 17:06
I face a problem when i tried to switch back to msn hotmail…There is no switch back option
September 12th, 2007 10:35
same issue, want to switch back to old reliable version of HOTMAIL… and get rid of this crappy Windows Live - There is no switch back to classic hotmail option! WHY!?!?!?! HELPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!
i hate this new windows live BS.
September 12th, 2007 17:58
fk windows live its a disgrace!!
September 12th, 2007 22:54
I lost all of my emails and contacts when it auto upgraded me to Hotmail Live. There is no customer service to speak to either. I have now closed both of my Hotmail accounts. Gmail is what I use for now.
September 13th, 2007 10:22
I want to switch back to the old homail but the option to switch back is no longer there.
I am not able to open my hotmail on certain computers and I don;t know why. But I know this happened after I have switched over to the new Hotmail Live.
September 13th, 2007 12:55
Feeling frustrated, I just like the old verison better too– its only lets me switch between “CLASSIC” aka NEW LIVE or “FULL” aka even sucker NEW LIVE verison–wtf i’ve had my email account for years and this is bogus, i kept trying NOT to switch and i could log in one day and i think i did it by accident on a different computer…anyone out there have any advice on how to just go back to the OLD MSN HOTMAIL.
September 14th, 2007 06:01
I want my old Hotmail back!!!! I’ve been using the same e-mail address for TEN years and I can’t find a switch back button!!
Help!!!!!
September 14th, 2007 07:00
Yeah, what the hell is this garbage? Today I went to hotmail.com and that was it — there was no going back. It just automatically reverts me to Windows Live Mail now; there is no option I see to get back to the old hotmail which I’d like. Live Mail sucks.
September 14th, 2007 09:16
Assuming that by this time next week I’m still subjected to this torture I will have to go through the hassle of changing email accounts.I’ve had this one for years. Thanks for nothing Bill.
I want a simple email account. I must be able to rely on the fact that it will never lose my saved mail. It must be easy to access over the web, and it should almost never go down. I don’t need a ton of space.What do y’all recommend ? Yahoo ? G-mail ?
Steve
September 14th, 2007 19:24
this is bad…I just logged in to my account to discover I have been automatically updated to the new Live mail…Horrible!!! And there is no switch back to MSN Hotmail button anymore…WTF is wrong with the Live Team in Microsoft…
September 15th, 2007 00:52
Its very unprofessional to have my email account changed automatically. If this problem isn’t corrected extremely soon I will not be using hotmail in the near future. I’m exhausted with this forced “beta” or “live” thing. If I have to go to the trouble of changing I won’t ever be back. Please give me the option to change back to my original msn hotmail.
September 15th, 2007 06:46
I too just logged on to my account of 6 years and was horrified to see this “new and improved” update of theirs. If they don’t give me the option to switch back within the next week I will be switching to gmail and will have washed my hands of MSN for good!
September 15th, 2007 07:48
I have been having fits with this issue as well for 3 weeks with no workable suggestions from my internet provider. Yesterday, out of desparation, I keyd ‘MSN downloads’ into google and then downloaded MSN 8. That gave me the butterfly on my desktop. When I bring up that as my homepage, I am able to access my hotmail through Mail and More. You might try it. Not much to lose at this point. What a nightmare.
September 15th, 2007 10:30
I agree with everyone here… the new look was just shoved in both of my mail accounts… there was no e-mail asking me if I would like to switch, and no “revert back” button.
This is totally unacceptable, and I am now trying to locate means to sign a petition or other means to put pressure on them to change the looks back.
Until they wake-up and smell the roses, I am stopping using my emails; I’ll try and find another tool for now.
What utter non-sense.
Good luck to all of us.
— François
September 15th, 2007 15:05
Please revert my Windows Live to classic hotmail (the old version of hotmail).
September 15th, 2007 20:46
switch to back hotmail
September 15th, 2007 22:33
JUST A CLICK WOULD DO
I thought it was only me. But now seeing how many others HATES WINDOWS LIVE Too! I have been with MSN HOTMAIL for over 10 years.I submited a total of 4 comments to windows live and then it still took me an hour to find this “where I’m at now”! There should be a easier way to get back to THE GOOD OLD MSN HOTMAIL. “I will not even go there” about the CLICK ON HERE if you would like to go BACK to MSN HOTMAIL
Hopefully there will be someone updating this problem. And I can’t wait to show my husband that I was NOT the only one with this problem. I would hate to leave now after having my e/mail address for so long.
Sorry, I HATE WINDOWS LIVE
Thank You for listening to my 5th comment
September 15th, 2007 22:40
This is putrid… The new Windows Live layout looks like trash, I can not believe there is not “switch back” button. This better be resolved within in the week or I am switching to GMail.
September 16th, 2007 00:53
I am extermely annoyed with MSN’s decision to “upgrade” to a new version of hotmail. The only helpful feature is the option to save all sent messages. But the interface is now extremely clutterd. My laptop has a 15″ screen, and the amount of blank area when composing a message in Hotmail is now about 10%! What’s the point of having a 15″ screen? Also, there is no option to have incoming and outgoing mail in plain text, which is unacceptable. This is the main reason why I would like to change e-mail accounts at this point. Except hotmail seems to do everything to make changing accounts difficult - not possible to forward e-mail to gmail! It is also not possible with hotmail to download e-mail onto Outlook Express. So pretty much everything stinks about hotmail, and I regret having opened an account with them. Their switch to MSN Live Hotmail marks the end of the era of free e-mail accounts - at least for me.
September 16th, 2007 04:22
Windows live sucks! it wont let me delete emails. I tried three different methods to revert back but any time it said something like “click the switch back link” the link didnt exist! It’s just not an option. Its driving me crazy.
September 16th, 2007 07:23
THIS SUCKS!!!
THIS SUCKS!!!
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Oh…
THIS SUCKS!!!
Nazi’s…give me back without invading my territory!
Assohles
September 16th, 2007 20:24
Well, the same problem
September 16th, 2007 20:24
This new hotmail sucks I agree with everyone here I am tired of MICROSOFT and their we can do what we want I am ready to switch to linyx
September 16th, 2007 23:14
JUST A CLICK WILL DO
I’m back and Mader than HELL
Whats Up with the window in front of “SWITCH BACK TO CLASSIC”
I believe that theres a PROBLEM. Do we know who’s going to fix it. Someone is NOT doing there JOB.
I would like to know if the same people are running MSN and WINDOWS LIVE!!! Or is it two different departments, Companies? It a shame how WINDOWS LIVE is making MSN look bad, if so.
I just had my e/mail up and was going to send something “WHERE WAS MY CONTACT LIST” not there
All I’ve got to say if theres a new CEO Get him out of there??????????
This will be my 7th COMMENT because Number 6th didn’t show up on the screen??? Hum
September 17th, 2007 02:39
I hate Hotmail Live too!
I can’t afford new PC and new software just to use this new version.
This is a classic example of how MS assumes what the users want instead of asking.
One day I’ll purchase that new PC… and the MACs look more and more attractive all the time!
September 17th, 2007 03:52
Print so large, can’t make it small and can’t find my e-mail for 3 days now. HELP
September 17th, 2007 20:32
Please HELP
i just recently converted to Windows Live and I tried what you said and I am unable to get rid of it!
I am in panic because dissapprove of this Windows Live majorly!!
HELLPP!
THANKS
September 17th, 2007 21:30
please Ican’not going true the new windows please had the all one I had as many problems to understand so plaese give us a go , just return the other way, we are suppose to get all our wishes but I think somebodody in the top don’t listen just had a heart GOD BLESS YOU .I,m a older person and my hobbies are visit the web but now is very impossible .
September 17th, 2007 22:25
Well I thinking that hotmail don’t listen or waant to due what ever they want so if you think that you are making the rigth desition jus due what ever you whant .Only don;t try heart full susch as people as I m, just a person wwho don’t understand what is happening and don’t whant to be rude with nobody because I respect every body opinion rigth now is like the inquisition centuries ago so if you want go ahead just say so but please don’ make us fell fullis sorry about my bad writting in English bye for now
September 17th, 2007 23:49
I have followed your instructions but am still not able to convert back to cassic MSN Hotmail. Am I missing something? I originally choose the classic version of Windows Live Hotmail. I then upgraded to the full version allowing me to get the ‘more options’ link. When I did this though it only gave me the option to convert back to the classic version and not to revert back to classic MSN. Please help!
September 18th, 2007 01:58
i’m at my wits end here,,i’m trying to get switch back to msn hotmail,,don’t like windows live hotmail,,i did everything they told me to do and it still won’t switch back,,i’m i missing something here,,if anybody got a solution to this problem i would really be gratfully
September 18th, 2007 02:30
I cant even read my mail. An ad pops up and it gets stuck.. This is insane. Hotmail foolishly is my primary personal e-mail, but 4 says without being able to access it is making me rethink this
September 18th, 2007 09:09
how do i get back to the regular hotmail shouldnt we have the choice to switch or not i dont like the live
September 18th, 2007 09:20
I like my old mail box !!!
September 18th, 2007 09:53
please, can somody tell how to swich back to old hotmail
September 18th, 2007 12:05
Don’t understand why I got converted to the Windows Live Hotmail. I, too, hate it!! Get us all back….quickly….please!
September 18th, 2007 17:01
anyone know how to disable “Attachments, pictures, and links in this message have been blocked for your safety.” message???????????
September 18th, 2007 20:16
I need to switch back NOW! This Windows live is dreadful.
September 18th, 2007 20:37
Everyone I ended up switching to gmail.
its better, and vaguely easier to use I’m still getting used to it.
But not making me mad such as Live did
September 18th, 2007 23:10
PLEASEEEEE allow users the OPTION of reverting back. users hate being forced to accept what you give them and then having to continously inform MSN about the lack of features in the “newer” version e.g cut & paste (now available), can’t make changes to sent messages, # of emails per page etc. I haven’t spoken or read 1 blog of a person who enjoys the new beta. no wonder Goog and gmail continue to dominate. They listen to their users instead of dictating to them.
September 18th, 2007 23:49
how can i go back to the regular msn hotmail because i don’t havve this option to switch from live hotmail to the old one.
I hate windows live i wonna get my old hotmail
September 19th, 2007 07:06
i hate HOTMAİL LİVE ! İ WANT MY MSN HOTMAİL!!
İ CAN’t GET İT BACKKKKKKKKKK WHYYYYYYYYYYYY?
September 19th, 2007 07:07
i hate HOTMAÄ°L LÄ°VE ! Ä° WANT MY MSN HOTMAÄ°L!!
Ä° CAN’t GET Ä°T BACKKKKKKKKKK WHYYYYYYYYYYYY?
September 19th, 2007 11:51
i hate this new version with a passion. how did this happen to me.. i blinked. pressed a wrong button. .and im stuck in hotmail live u know what. i want out..
September 19th, 2007 18:05
this new hotmail is so difficult to handle and i’d like to suich back to classic hotmail
September 19th, 2007 23:17
i HATE this version..WWHHYY cant i get my original hotmail back..i hate it…i dont even know HOW i got it….
September 20th, 2007 02:50
Please please someone find out a solution. I have tried everything and still I can’t get back to the old MSN hotmail! I grow angry when I come on the computer because I know I have windows live mail. And how? I have no idea!!! It just, the other day. turned into a windows live account!! Please someone help…
September 20th, 2007 15:37
fuck you hotmail with your bill gates you have to ask clients mother fu@@@@ker i will go to other comapny Gmail mother fu@@@@@kerr
September 20th, 2007 15:39
put a link for switching backkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk i want old style orrrrrrrrrrr i will go to another comapny
September 20th, 2007 18:44
I might not hate the new version as much as I do if it actually WORKED!!! Cut and paste doesn’t work and often, for no apparent reason, e-mail bounces back to me when I have put in the proper e-mail address!!!!
September 20th, 2007 19:10
Now they went and “f^%$#up” hotmail for good I lost all my messages fucking idiots good bye hotmail and hallo Gmail.
September 20th, 2007 20:56
They’ve remobed the “Switch to MSN Hotmail” link.
Gmail here I come!
September 20th, 2007 23:33
It would have been courteous of MSN to inform us that we cannot switch back to our beloved hotmail accounts, so that thousands of IT guys around the country would not have to lose the productivity of searching for a solution that does not exist.
Time better spent switching to g mail.
September 21st, 2007 01:41
su@#$%
ok… I move to gmail.
September 21st, 2007 04:37
I HATE THIS STUPID WINDOWS LIVE HOTMAIL! I want the old hotmail back. I mean I could understand it if they had actually asked for my permission, but I just signed on today, and bam, I now have Windows Live Hotmail. I do not want this, and I was happy with the old hotmail. But I can’t find the feature. I hate this!
September 21st, 2007 08:24
I also hate this windows live hotmail…. no one asked us if we wanted to switch or even gave us the option to stay with the old hotmail format… it just goes to show you that we the people have no rights even on the web.. I agree with people that say Gates get what Gates wants… So what if he likes it… give us the option if we want your crap or not..
September 21st, 2007 08:31
I think we all need to flood the “Feedback” on Live hotmail as much as we can many many times. I’ve done it about 5 times and I will continue to keep doing it till I reach at least 100 times. Maybe they’ll get the hint that they screwed up with this crap
September 21st, 2007 12:23
All aboard! Let’s get off this ship as it is sinking fast! What a bunch of self center, egotistical idiots. I hope this Microsoft company goes down and fast! They disgust me!
MP
September 21st, 2007 15:32
I’m surprised dinosaurs aren’t using this innovative upgrade. It would be something if the automated upgrade was actually that, instead of being a bulky, badly designed piece of programming that fails to work. When I finally located my mail options I found hardly any of them there. It doesn’t record any of my preference changes - like that for plain text or not viewing the today page. So many bugs. What a backwards step.
September 21st, 2007 23:10
these idiots at Msoft just shoved a piece of garbage down my throat with this Live thing. It sucks so bad that i tried it before and i switched back to the old hotmail. Now this time they forced it on me and i cant go back to old hotmail. I hate you hotmail and i dont think i will be using u for my primary email much longer.
September 21st, 2007 23:24
Windows Live Hotmail is slow, unattractive, and frustrating. I am very disappointed that I was automatically switched to this new version, that is definitely NOT an improvement. I want to revert to the MSN Hotmail version I was happily using before. I am angry that there does not seem to be option to do this. It doesn’t appear under the options menu. Is there another way to access this option? In the meantime I will continue sending feedback messages expressing my disgust with Live Hotmail every time I log in.
September 22nd, 2007 05:47
Just A Click Will Do
Remember Me, I’m Back AGAIN
AT THE TOP OF THIS PAGE IT SAYS: “LEAVE WINDOWS LIVE AND REVIRT BACK TO CLASSIC HOTMAIL” Then theres a window in front of “SWITCH BACK TO CLASSIC” that you can’t get to. Well It’s not working still, HELLO !!!
1) can someone give us a answer, WHY !!!
2) Is there someone reading these SUBMITS that gives a DAMM.
3) can you tell that the plubic is Pissed off with HOTMAIL.
4) It would be nice if someone could send an e/mail to let us know whats going on.
5) “GOT Clue”
Whats it going to take to get an answer????
I forgot How many { of these } I have sent?
and I will keep on sending to you get something done or I get an answer !!!!!
September 22nd, 2007 05:59
i want the msm CLASSIC version… this cant be possible… c’mon tell us how to get it.
September 22nd, 2007 06:25
please give us the choice to switch or not what if someone did the same thing to you didnt give you a choice about something so please switch us back or give us a switch button that is actually there cause i done even see one the only thing there is to switch you back to classic windows live please give us it back or old msn hotmail how many people do you want to lose to this or hear complaning about it
September 22nd, 2007 07:31
I’ve tried every thing I can to get back the old hotmail look and still nothing… I cant even get ahold of customer service for msn.. so I’ll keep sending complaints thru “feedback” until I get customer service and then I’ll flood them with complaints and I think every body should do the same. I’ve also changed my hotmail to yahoo mail… its sad because I’ve been using msn for 7 years now and now i’ve got to change because some idiot thouth windows live is a good thing. to bad its not and never will be.
September 22nd, 2007 13:37
Just keep demanding through feedback that MSN give the option to revert back. Hopefully MSN will soon understands that many of their users will abandon the service for a competitor. And once we leave it’s hard if not impossible to get us back. Just ask the Recording Industry & Labels!!!
September 22nd, 2007 21:57
JUST A CLICK WILL DO
Well I’m done with WINDOWS LIVE! It will be a week tomorrow and nothing has been done. I will be looking for another server. Thanks to who ever changed CLASSIC!!! windows live will never be a CLASSIC, it will be “windows dead”!
PS. You need to read your E/mails, if you can find them!!!!!!!
SO LONG LOOSER’S
September 23rd, 2007 00:15
is is just me or did my old school Hotmail change to windows live classic by itself?
is anyone getting this forced upgrade?
September 23rd, 2007 10:34
I am with everyone here, I have been trying to gain the original true orginal msn hotmail back with no luck from the msn live team what so ever. I left about maybe 3 negative feedbacks because their website email service is down. Probably too much pressure to revert. Unfortunately I always used the old hotmail as my main account and still love it. I about a few days away from moving everything I have into yahoo, its a pain but i really want to give them time to fix this. Hopefully!!
September 23rd, 2007 19:30
i like to switch off windows live back to old hotmail and i can’t get it,
i get some little Direction but it doesn’t work i go to Option place and i saw like this i don’t know if they change
(You are using the classic version of Windows Live Hotmail.
Have a fast connection and want more features? Try the full version to see message previews in your inbox. (It’s free, too.))..
i need another help if i can get
September 25th, 2007 00:12
I seem to be stuck with the new version. And I am pretty ticked off as I don’t like it and don’t know what to do to get back to the old hotmail. And who to complain to?
September 25th, 2007 04:04
What the hell is going on. I can’t revert back from a version of hotmail I never asked to have. This is really frustrating me. Everytime Microsoft comes out with anew version they think only of speed, never with usability. Please bring back the simplicity of the older version.
September 26th, 2007 03:58
What is going on !!! it’s really bad from Microsoft to change to the new bad style without care about the users !!!
WE NEED TO GET BACK THE OLD HOTMAIL STYLE !!!
PLEASE DO SOMETHING
September 26th, 2007 12:41
it doesn’t give you the option of switching back anymore. but… ARGHHHH i HATE Live. Both the Messenger and the Hotmail. It was perfectly fine before, but now my computer lags like a douche every time i try to use it.
I swear, hotmail will lose more people than win them over from other mailing services with the way they run things.
September 26th, 2007 12:59
EVERYONE! BOTTOM RIGHT OF YOUR HOTMAIL PAGE!
“feedback” option
theres an option for
“i want to give feedback about being automatically updated to windows live hotmail”
tell them what you think about it everyone. maybe if they realize how much we all hate it they’ll let us switch back.
September 26th, 2007 17:50
I am PISSED OFF!!! Imagine going for business trip to Europe,leaving country with sweet clasic version and arriving at the destination,hook up on internet and find this frigging Live crap staring at me!!!! I HATE IT WITH PASSION!!! I want my old version back!!
Regards Alena
September 27th, 2007 03:57
Fuckers bring me back my classic MSN hotmail version, you really like to make things complicated always.
September 27th, 2007 23:10
THIS IS F-IN SHITE!!
I hate it!!!
And there is no option to change it back!!!!
Ive e-mailed them with the feedback thing but Im not expecting anything to change…
I think I may just get a Google Mail….
September 28th, 2007 18:26
To make matters worse for me, their bozo update has “improved” the reply and forwarding functions by removing the left border line and smaller type size that used to consolidate and distinguish quoted passages. The new version formats quotes as run-on sentences piled into a block the same type size as the reply to the message or introduction to forwarded lines.
What a patronizing and needless insult to users of the previously simple and attractive Hotmail template.
September 29th, 2007 01:27
WELL WELL I AM NOT THE LEAST BIT SURPRISED AT THE FOOLS AT THIS WWB SITE FOR SOME REASON THEY WANT US TO SEND THEM INFORMATION ON WHAT WE THINK OR WHAT WE WANT ,AND THEY DON’T EVEN ANSWER OUR MESSAGES.I DON’T KNOW ABOUT THE REST OF THE PEOPLE WHO USE HOTMAIL,BUT IF I DON’T GET BACK THE HOTMAIL CLASSIC VERISON IN THE NEXT 12 HOURS I WILL BE GOING TO GMAIL OR EVEN YAHOO MAIL.TAKE TIME TO READ THESE AND HAVE THE COMMON SENSE TO ANSWER US.
September 29th, 2007 01:28
I AM NOT AT ALL PLEASED WITH HOTMAIL ANYMORE
September 29th, 2007 04:50
Please issue an information bulletin for those wishing to REVERT TO CLASSIC hotmail as was in place prior to WINDOWS LIVE HOTMAIL. There are many of us quite satisfied with this edition of hotmail
Thank you, Gordon
September 29th, 2007 23:22
Try as I might to follow the above instructions to switch back to the OLD regular hotmail I do not get the same instructions as listed and can’t seem to do it! Argh. The new Live Hotmail sucks butt!
September 30th, 2007 01:59
WTF… I’m from amsterdam. And today they forced me to live mail. WHat the hell is this. Before this happend already and with a trick (changing the language i could activate the switch back button) But now it seems they are not giving this option anymore and im stuck in Live mail. I HATE LIVE. If they dont give me the option to go back soon. I’m going to leave hotmail. (and i used this for over 10 yrs.) Can’t believe they didnt gave us a option.
thanks for listening.
September 30th, 2007 07:31
Has anyone seen or received even the slighest response from Microsoft about all the crappy changes and non-improvements it’s it made to Hotmail. Does anyone think Microsoft has paid any attention to a single feedback comment?
Me neither.
October 1st, 2007 00:58
i agree with all ov u i fink dey shud bring bck de old msn hotmail
October 2nd, 2007 01:17
Hotmail used to be easy. Then Microsoft got involved. Now I can’t login on windows live
for hotmail, or hotmail. Microsoft! Leave
things that aren’t broken ALONE! You’ve messed this up so badly, we’ll never ever get it back as easy and simple as it was. How the
Hell do I get my email now?
October 2nd, 2007 01:42
I agree with all of you, I don’t like this
Window Live Messenger at all which was forced on me without my consent! I want the Classic MSN Hotmail back, the beauty of simplicity!! I sent my feedback,to no avail nor response - Plan to copy/paste this link and sent it also, maybe they will hear us out … New doesn’t always mean better.
October 2nd, 2007 08:43
ahhhhhh!!! FUCK THIS! I need major help.. is there any way of switching back to msn hotmail.. i accidently updated today and ive been trying to switch back but i cant.. FUCK WINDOWS LIVE SHIT.. some one please help, im about to start smashing stuff…
October 2nd, 2007 11:05
I’ve noticed another half-assed “improvement” that the LIVE HOTMAIL update forces on users. If you download and save emails in the pintable format (the only format that I am able to download) for offline reading, the average size taken up by a brief downloaded email has increased TEN-FOLD — from 12kb to 120kb!
I know it’s not a major deal if you’ve got a newer computer with tons and tons of excess storage space for huge video games and whatnot, but why the hell does the LIVE format need to hog ten times more space than the MSM Hotmail format ever did?
What a piece of bloated crap.
October 2nd, 2007 11:19
it’s just fake you just decided to force us to using your service even if we don’t agree.
I’ll switch to gmail it’s the best for me
October 2nd, 2007 22:50
And what’s with the so-called “classic” view option in WINDOWS LIVE HOTMAIL? No way is there anything classic about it, It’s just a slow connection version of the lousy new format.
October 3rd, 2007 01:40
Well I swithed to Gmail & bye bye hotmail you realy f!@#$ up things. Been waiting 2 weeks for these f!@#$ to change it back but no responce from them. I think they’re going to loose alot of clients “goodbye” msn hotmail crap.
October 3rd, 2007 08:29
I know this has been said… but GODDAMNIT I HATE WINDOWS LIVE MAIL! the goddamn thing doesnt let me view my mail or anything! %*#^)$#*^_$%&($%)&(#@)^*@!!@!!!!! >=| I’ve been with hotmail for years now and i want to leave! .. but howthehell am i going to get my emails from hotmail?
…bitches..
October 4th, 2007 04:10
Just opened my inbox today to check the emails and only to find myself in live hotmail instead of the old classic version, They trapped me. I could come out of the beta at the time when there was that link which allowed us to go back whereas the other people who were late to change it back couldn’t do it. So i was real happy and telling some people than i didn’t change mine to the new one when they were complaining. And many people know my this one email. And it’s hard to get another one now. SO HOTMAIL F*** YOU MAN. EVERYBODY’S SPITTING ON YOU AND YOUR WHOLE F***ING TEAM. PEOPLE WORKING THERE SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF EVEN SAYING WE’RE WORKING WITH THE HOTMAIL. DAMN YOU, BITCHES..
Sorry for the swearing/cursing (NOT SORRY TO HOTMAIL AND IT’S F***ING TEAM)..
October 4th, 2007 14:12
CLASSIC COKE RETURNED,SO PERHAPS THE OLD HOTMAIL,I HAVE BEEN USING FOR MANY YEARS,WILL DO THE SAME? ‘NAWT-BLUDDY-LOIKLEY!!”
I CUSSED OUT MSN VIA A COMPALINT-MAIL TO SOME DORKUS MSN WORKER-DRONE AND SHE HAD THE STANDARD RESPONSE OF MOSTLY IGNORING MY REQUEST TO SWITCH BACK(I ASKED HER TO DO THIS FOR ME)AS IT WAS MORE OR LESS …’YOUR FU#KED AND LIVE WITH IT DUDE’.
THE CLASSIC LIVE VERSION IS SLOOOWWW AND JUST SUCKS,BIG TIME.WHAT A BUNCH OF OVER PAID CORPIRATE IDIOT,CASSHOLES!
October 5th, 2007 05:29
For what it’s worth, I followed the Hotmail account cancellation directions only to get a message that it’s NOT possible to cancel an account except maybe automatically by not using it for at least 90 days.
I don’t have a problem with never using it again, starting in about a week so that I can change over my contacts to gmail.
If I had the time to do so, I’d like to open fifty new accounts and let them all expire at the same time — 90 days from now.
October 7th, 2007 21:28
we must have achoice to switch baccccck
October 8th, 2007 01:03
Que mala suerte, este interruptor no me sale. Quiero ya volver a MSN Hotmail Y AHORAAAAAAAAAA.
October 9th, 2007 13:12
Nothing works on the new version, help central, feedback, can’t send attachments, can’t delete messages. It’s just awful and NONE of the instructions to get back to the old version work. If the switch back box/page is there, damned if I could find it. You can’t get on to any BODY at hotmail. I hate it and just want it the way it was when it WORKED.
October 10th, 2007 11:14
TAH DAH!!!
I’ve found a direct email address for the LIVE HOTMAIL support team at Microsoft! Keep in mind they already know they suck and they royally f—-d up the format change, so remember to not waste your email just yelling at them. Definitely do start off your email by saying you want back the old vMSN Hotmail, but also describe some of the SPECIFIC problems that you’re having with WINDOWS LIVE HOTMAIL and want fixed. Be SPECIFIC as you can about problems and complaints you’ve had with the format and interface change.
Don’t expect a reply, since the address could crash and shut down very soon, but here is the working email address as of Oct. 4, 2007:
emailspt@microsoft.com
October 10th, 2007 14:20
Reading everyone’s thoughts about the new version has given me hope.However people, I’ll bet my bottom dollar not one of us has had a reply from Microsoft. Guess half the planet uses hotmail and the “few” of us who have expressed a collective loathing for the new format can go to hell as far as they are concerned. However, great to know that I wasn’t overreacting when the new “improved” format was put on my email without my consent.
October 11th, 2007 00:35
Hotmail users have been giving Microsoft hell on its official blogs since last spring. To read through a MS thread with more than 350 complaints about the format change, see here:
http://emailsupport.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!5D6F5A79A79B6708!564.entry
It’s definitely a thread worth visiting.
October 11th, 2007 00:45
Sorry, wrong address for the MS complaint thread I just mentioned. Here’s the correct link to it:
http://emailsupport.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!5D6F5A79A79B6708!564.entry#comment
October 13th, 2007 04:09
I cant switch back to MSN Hotmail : (((
October 14th, 2007 02:42
i want to revert to my old hotmail , this version can’t read arabic mails, it may have more options but it can’t fullfill my aims
sorry u have to do something or lots will move to other sites that respect their customers and their choices 
October 15th, 2007 01:08
you guys really need to let us switch back to the normal original hotmail. this was sucha waste of time
October 16th, 2007 04:15
sara
October 15th, 2007 01:08 136you guys really need to let us switch back to the normal original hotmail. this was sucha waste of time
mesmesh
October 14th, 2007 02:42 135i want to revert to my old hotmail , this version can’t read arabic mails, it may have more options but it can’t fullfill my aims sorry u have to do something or lots will move to other sites that respect their customers and their choices
Liz
October 13th, 2007 04:09 134I cant switch back to MSN Hotmail : (((
Kate G.
October 11th, 2007 00:45 133Sorry, wrong address for the MS complaint thread I just mentioned. Here’s the correct link to it:
http://emailsupport.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!5D6F5A79A79B6708!564.entry#comment
Kate G.
October 11th, 2007 00:35 132Hotmail users have been giving Microsoft hell on its official blogs since last spring. To read through a MS thread with more than 350 complaints about the format change, see here:
http://emailsupport.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!5D6F5A79A79B6708!564.entry
It’s definitely a thread worth visiting.
Airlie
October 10th, 2007 14:20 131Reading everyone’s thoughts about the new version has given me hope.However people, I’ll bet my bottom dollar not one of us has had a reply from Microsoft. Guess half the planet uses hotmail and the “few” of us who have expressed a collective loathing for the new format can go to hell as far as they are concerned. However, great to know that I wasn’t overreacting when the new “improved” format was put on my email without my consent.
Alvis
October 10th, 2007 11:14 130TAH DAH!!!
I’ve found a direct email address for the LIVE HOTMAIL support team at Microsoft! Keep in mind they already know they suck and they royally f—-d up the format change, so remember to not waste your email just yelling at them. Definitely do start off your email by saying you want back the old vMSN Hotmail, but also describe some of the SPECIFIC problems that you’re having with WINDOWS LIVE HOTMAIL and want fixed. Be SPECIFIC as you can about problems and complaints you’ve had with the format and interface change.
Don’t expect a reply, since the address could crash and shut down very soon, but here is the working email address as of Oct. 4, 2007:
emailspt@microsoft.com
Airlie Circuitt
October 9th, 2007 13:12 129Nothing works on the new version, help central, feedback, can’t send attachments, can’t delete messages. It’s just awful and NONE of the instructions to get back to the old version work. If the switch back box/page is there, damned if I could find it. You can’t get on to any BODY at hotmail. I hate it and just want it the way it was when it WORKED.
Agustín
October 8th, 2007 01:03 128Que mala suerte, este interruptor no me sale. Quiero ya volver a MSN Hotmail Y AHORAAAAAAAAAA.
noofe
October 7th, 2007 21:28 127we must have achoice to switch baccccck
Tria
October 5th, 2007 05:29 126For what it’s worth, I followed the Hotmail account cancellation directions only to get a message that it’s NOT possible to cancel an account except maybe automatically by not using it for at least 90 days.
I don’t have a problem with never using it again, starting in about a week so that I can change over my contacts to gmail.
If I had the time to do so, I’d like to open fifty new accounts and let them all expire at the same time — 90 days from now.
Monday October 15, 2007
I hate the new live version of hotmail and I want to go back to the classic MSN Hotmail.
I would like to see a menu bar offered that has Bold, Underline, Highlight, Font color selective choice, punctuation correction,
proofreader, spell check, grammar check and
World Book Dictionary.
The New live hotmail version, is frustrating,
aggrevating, blood pressure raising and has way too many complexities which interfere with what you are doing or freezes the entire computer and wastes valuable time that could be put to more effective and productive use as well as enjoyment.GET RID OF THELIVE HOT MAIL VERSION AND GET BACK TO THE CLASSIC MSN HOTMAIL VERSION. mICROSOFT SATISFY THE NEEDS OF YOUR CUSTOMERS INSTEAD OF YOUR OWN WANTS.
PATTI C.
October 16th, 2007 04:31
There should also be a thesaurus included in that menu bar I suggested to have made available to all your MSN hotmail customers.
Patti C.
October 16th, 2007 07:30
JUST A SUGGESTION FOR RELIEF OF WINDOWS LIVE.
ON THE BOTTOM LEFT OF YOUR COMPUTER YOU SHOULD SEE A START BUTTON.
CLICK THE START BUTTON.
GO TO SETTINGS, CLICK AGAIN.
GO TO CONTROL PANEL, CLICK AGAIN
GO TO ADD/REMOVE PROGRAMS.
SELECT THE PROGRAM(S) YOU WANT REMOVED.
THEN CLICK ON THE WORD REMOVE.
LET THE COMPUTER TAKE IT FROM THERE AND TELL YOU WHAT TO DO IF ANYTHING.
October 20th, 2007 00:24
I’d love to revert back to regular hotmail. I hate windows live hotmail. I can never log in when I want to. How do I revert back?
October 24th, 2007 01:43
HELP - this article is great, except that someone switched this for me yesterday, to allow another program and i CANT switch back. the option as it reads above “You can also Switch to MSN Hotmail” is NOT on either the full OR classic screens under options. can someone PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE help me - i cannot stand this new LIVE hotmail - what idiocy!
thank you!
October 24th, 2007 05:15
I am soooo not satisfied! I’ve been trying to switchback for two days now. I think I’ll just get a Yahoo! address and leave this bullshyt alone!
October 24th, 2007 05:27
for some reason, although it says in the article above that there is an option sying “You can also Switch to MSN Hotmail,” i cant seem to find it and I WANT IT BACK. yesterday, i was using a third party to download my hotmail messages to my cell. to do that they switched me to this horrid horrid windows live. i was on the old old one, but cannot get back since yesterday. how can i fix it?????
October 24th, 2007 10:57
Some of the many reasons that the Windows Live Hotmail is terrible: The rich text is the default and you now have to click on the button to revert back to plain text. You cannot cut and paste in rich text. Sometimes, return messages are now jammed together at the bottom of the email. When trying to send an email reply back, sometimes the original sender’s name is not present in the sender address block. Pop up blockers are controlling almost every email you receive even if you enter the addresses in your trusted security file.
October 24th, 2007 16:24
I have a problem with my hotmail account , it seems that whenever I login with the older version of hotmail it everthing works smoothly but when I use the windows live it somehow hangs up on me and at the end saying CANNOT FIND SERVER
How can this problem be solve.
October 25th, 2007 21:04
I’d like to switch back to old hotmail.But how? Please help me.
October 27th, 2007 11:27
i’d like to change back to the old version,but i dont know how.i already follow ur way that you show me but i dont see the switch back button in my hotmail..please help me.
October 29th, 2007 18:49
Has anyone considered what’s really going on here with this useless new Hotmail Live? I’m incandescent about these roll down ads which disable the operation bar totally. At the rate at which we are abandoning Hotmail, because of this, I would be very worried if I were an advertiser with Hotmail. Who will be left to see their ads? I wonder if MSN are doing this deliberately? To drive away the users of this ‘free’ service, so they can relaunch it as a ‘paying’ service? It’s just a thought. Any other views on this?
November 1st, 2007 04:07
i switched back once before, so i knew where the button was and everything… but now it’s GONE!
You are using the classic version of Windows Live Hotmail.
Have a fast connection and want more features? Try the full version to see message previews in your inbox. (It’s free, too.)
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what really makes me mad is this — i signed on using another computer, which used “live”, and it automatically upgraded me w/o my permission!!
November 1st, 2007 07:13
Jody, you’re lucky to have found the way back, even if it did disappear. I HATE those hideous advertisements on the “new & improved” version. Is anyone having any luck getting in touch with ANYONE at hotmail/Microsoft???. This whole thing is contemptable
November 2nd, 2007 15:50
sorry all this in vain ur instruction is not right no hints for switch back to original hotmail. ru fooling us? or wht? any way ur in the way for losing ur subsceibers coz as i see lots are not satisfied wiz ur new version
Alas, hotmail was wonderful and by ur new develpment u make it sooooooooooo BAD
November 5th, 2007 05:14
Tabasco, can you please give us the link which leads to the “Switch to MSN Hotmail” in the accounts where this option is still available? Maybe we can trick them if we see/arrive at the page indicated by that link.
Thank you!
>>> Tabasco wrote (on July 22nd, 2007 01:09)
Vanguard I’m not sure if you’re right because I have several hotmail accounts, and at one account I don’t see the “switch to old version” anywhere in the options, while another does. What’s the explanation too that?
November 15th, 2007 07:19
i want to return to my original hotmail plz..
November 15th, 2007 08:01
Sorry folks, I think we’re lost it. Less and less comment as people either leave hotmail or get used to the new ghastly format. Just shows you, if you sit there like Microsoft has since they changed our dear old hotmail and do nothing, people run out of puff……however, I will never buy a Microsoft product again and my next computer will be an Apple.
November 18th, 2007 07:19
Since the new hotmail is not as good as the old hotmail, and since it now appears that we (at least some of us) can no longer switch back from “Live”, what is the next best alternative? Is there another Webmail service that is comparable to the old hotmail? I haven’t found it yet if there is, but I’m still hoping! It sure would be nice if the old interface could be resurrected by someone else now that Microsoft has ditched it…
November 18th, 2007 10:02
please help he switch bac this shit is crazy..
November 19th, 2007 13:28
i want to return to my original hotmail plz..
because I ma comfortable with classic version of hotmail.
November 19th, 2007 13:29
i want to return to my original hotmail plz..
November 19th, 2007 13:39
i want to return to my original hotmail plz..
Bcs orinial hotmail is better in every way (Look wise,functionality wise etc.)form windows live.
November 19th, 2007 22:10
l want to go back to original msn mail. not msn hotmail. there’s no way to do it..l’ve tried everything..guess we’ll have to wait for another version.
November 21st, 2007 11:48
That is what I call “authoritarianism” from Microsoft,but do not forget that we can control it. Start using Firefox, Linux, Apple, there are better alternatives out there.
December 3rd, 2007 22:35
can u plz put us back on msn or can u put the winks on the new msn and the nudge and convos like they used to be please cos we all wan it back who eva wants it back email I LOL
safe bloods
December 15th, 2007 02:16
Since the introduction of the NEW MSN Windows Live and Hotmail, I have not been able to sign-in with my previously used email, username, and password. Therefore losing all my previous contacts and email messages with the old hotmail. Is there a way I can still retrieve them ?? I was forced to sing in with a new email user address, why?
December 16th, 2007 19:08
I read the instructions, yet, I still can’t switch back to the Classic MSN Hotmail like I want too. THIS IS BULL!!!
Honestly, I have a really BIG problem with his new Windows Live Hotmail crap. This is the one e-mail address that I normally use to e-mail my co-workers, family and all that, and this huge switch to Windows live hotmail has screwed that all up, because now, whenever someone e-mail’s me a picture, looks like a pathedic little tic tac, and when I used Classic MSN Hotmail, it was the right size, and it didn’t shrink the pic to a damn ant like Windows like hotmail does.
Plus now, I lose important messages that I NEED for work, and with Classic MSN Hotmail, I never had this problem.
Now damn it all, will someone PLEASE tell me how I can switch back to Classic MSN Hotmail, and with no false information, PLEASE!!! I would really really appriciate it.
December 16th, 2007 23:42
Jonathan, et al:
The information posted here and elsewhere about reverting to Classic Hotmail is not false, it is just dated– AS OF NOV 1 2007 CLASSIC CEASED TO EXIST.
I, too, had used hotmail as my primary address– for personal and business use –since the late ’90s, and it’s been more than a couple of pains to recover. It’s not free (or even cheap), but for business users, I can personally recommend Webmail.us –it has an interface that is nearly identical to the old hotmail. They have a few quirks that I don’t particularly care for, but I’ve gotten used to them in a couple of weeks. For free services, I know more than a few acquaintences who have changed to inbox.com and been mostly happy with the result.
Classic Hotmail was a fantastic program and I guess we’re all fortunate that Microsoft waited so long to screw it up. It’s too bad that they misled us into thinking the change to Live Hotmail was an upgrade; it’s also too bad that they decided at the last minute to even attach the Hotmail name to the new product.
But, that’s life . . .
December 17th, 2007 17:57
Thank you very much Stephen, I appriciate it. It’s just, Yahoo Mail gives us the option of switching back to the old classic style, and it just blows me away that hotmail doesn’t do the same, because the thing is, not everyone is going to be happy with the new style, and it’s like Mircosoft doesn’t even care about the people who enjoyed the old style of it.
Yeah… But oh well I guess.
Thanks again, and merry christmas.
December 19th, 2007 04:34
i want to switch to MSN hotmail but i dont have (switch to MSN hotmail) Option ??!!!!
December 29th, 2007 22:58
Ehh, I still have MSN Hotmail.
December 30th, 2007 08:30
dude:
how do you still have msn hotmail??? please let us know!
December 30th, 2007 08:51
It is obvious that dude is confused and is thinking he does have MSN Hotmail and it really is Windows Live Hotmail. MSN classic Hotmail does not exist anymore.
January 11th, 2008 05:00
I WANT TO SWITCH BACK TO MSN HOTMAIL I DONT LIKE THIS NEW VERSION option of switching back is no longer available plzzz plzz change it everyone has its choce you have some resposibilty towars your customers plzz back that option so those who dont want to use this version they can switch back
January 12th, 2008 19:41
how can i switch back to original hotmail
pls tell me??
i don’t like hotmail live version
ordinary_boyz@hotmail.com
January 14th, 2008 06:11
Ken, many customers do still have the classic MSN Hotmail look. I myself have it as I never opt’d to upgrade. Customers who have paid MSN accounts or receive MSN e-mail/premium service through their ISP (e.g. Verizon, Bell Canada, etc..) still have the classic MSN classic look unless they chose to upgrade. The login page for hotmail has finally changed from the classic look to live, but the actual email account on my end still has the MSN Hotmail design, same one it has had for 6 years now. I may be switching soon because you have to refresh the page multiple times or else the page is blank after login.
January 14th, 2008 12:36
Pat Mac: Consider yourself VERY lucky, and yes, start thinking about switching, because, when the switch comes (which it has for the rest of us), you won’t be happy. During my transition away from MSN Live Mail (I refuse to even honor it by calling it Hotmail, and I see that Microsoft has dropped the reference in many places) after they switched me, I’ve lately noticed several instances when I cannot get onto the server or times when the server is so busy that I can’t tell if a message has actually been sent or not; and yes, that is with premium. Very poor planning– a so-called upgrade with less service? Oh, yeah, it’s Microsoft! I’m very glad to have made the change to another service. Signed, a thoroughly thrilled subscriber of nine years that MSN kicked to the wind!
January 18th, 2008 06:20
Windows Live Hotmail does not send e-mail in text. Hotmail does. I want to send email in text. So get me back.
January 20th, 2008 17:00
You know it really pisses me off when you guys decide to switch people over to something else without us knowing ,in a sneaky ,yet false advertising sort of way ,and before you know it everything is screwed up and it’s a major inconvienience!!!!!!!!!!.the worst thing you could have done .why ever change anything that’s working?! I just might switch to yahoo for this one out of spite!
January 21st, 2008 22:57
this is too difficult to read or send mails on live hotmail version so i m quiting to old hotmail.
January 22nd, 2008 22:29
pleas tell me how to proceed to revert back to classicMsn Hotmail..as i have problems with the Windows Live…all my text are blank
January 24th, 2008 04:23
Your only choice now is Windows Live Hotmail full or classic. Both are total crap, but you can email plain text in classic.
Leave it to Microsoft to be the first to really screw up webmail.
February 9th, 2008 06:22
This tutorial doesn’t work anymore, MSN removed the change to classic link and you are stuck in this live version.
February 14th, 2008 00:38
i want to back a msn hotmail plz
February 14th, 2008 00:40
the windows live is very hard i can’t not andestood plz i wana clasic msn hotmail
March 25th, 2008 12:23
I would like to direct any and all people whose experiences with hotmail have been less than pleasant to enjoy an entertaining article at:
http://soverybitter.blogspot.com/2005/05/hotmail-debacle.html
April 11th, 2008 13:44
Classic Hotmail out ranked: AOL, Gmail and Yahoo. Window’s Live is fancy but I want to read my emails quickly, not have to become a computer wiz to read them.
After all of the hard work freelnace providers have to do online, the last thing we want is to have to work another job by understanding our friendly email provider. New isn’t always the best, the best is the best and that was the Classic Version.
After the new has worn out, the Classic will be the community choice.
April 24th, 2008 10:31
Please help me to get my old versin msn back,I can not use the knew one.
April 29th, 2008 05:13
Just get me off this Windows Live thing . My computer is ready for social security and
just can’t handle the “Live ” stuff
Thank You Glenda Clayton
May 11th, 2008 17:21
I’m changing to yahoo, the windows live hotmail is alful. Make sure things are running right before you switch to something else. The old one was just fine. It’s such a pain to use.
May 11th, 2008 23:57
this is too difficult to read or send mails on live hotmail version so i m quiting to old hotmail.
May 15th, 2008 23:12
i agree with all the above a complete nightmare!
July 4th, 2008 00:06
All these replies are like a dog chasing his tail. The direction to switch to classic is so confusing that I believe it can’t be followed.
Would someone please sent me the link to switch to classic.
July 16th, 2008 20:29
I want my old hotmail back…NOW!!!!!!!!!!
July 20th, 2008 19:03
Im going to Yahoo, windows hotmail live sucks big time.
You lost another one fella’s
August 1st, 2008 02:06
I am ready to pay US$ 1,000,000,000,000,000.00 to get back to my old version of the so called hotmail or classical windowslive mail.
August 1st, 2008 02:14
Go back to Yahooooooooooo!
Go back to gmaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaail!
Go back to any maaaaaaaaaaaail!
you are not satisfied
and you will nevere be satisfied
Hotmail to The Hell
Hotmail to The Hell
Hotmail to The Hell
September 13th, 2008 06:08
i really REALLY NEED TO ACCES MY OLD HOTMAIL ACT… (TELL ME @ GABEAQUINODOA@HOT…)
October 2nd, 2008 21:24
Why are you not listening to any of us, we want our old hotmail back. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
October 6th, 2008 20:51
I’d really like my old classic MSN back.
Don’t like this new fangled thing.
October 10th, 2008 23:52
I have been trying to get in contact with anyone who possibly works with Hotmail. I would like my previous version restored. I do not like this new version because I cannot access my email. I cannot read anything. When I click on an email to read it i get a blank screen. Also There is NO switch back button. Stop jerking us around. Can this new version please. All I want is to read my emails and cannot. Cannot get any help either. Pls dont respond via email. I cannot read it!
October 10th, 2008 23:56
I can not read my email with this new version. I want my old hotmail back.
I hope your stocks drop so far down that there will be NO hotmail. Give me back my hotmail.
October 10th, 2008 23:57
THERE IS NO SWITCHBACK BUTTON!!!
I WANT MY FORMER VERSION!
October 11th, 2008 00:13
if it aint broke dont fix it. I clicked on somehting mentioned in the article (smirk) and it takes me to a windows programs download page. The last thing I want are programs from you guys. See how this program is working? None of us want it.
Im missing appointments due to this. No one will help, no way to contact anyone. I hope you all lose your fucking jobs
October 16th, 2008 23:55
This is absurd - no such message appears at all and it’s driving me nuts… great.
Fk Microsoft.
October 19th, 2008 02:22
i dont like the new windows email i cant attach photos, and when i forward somethimg i cant access the email to contact iwant the old one back i didn;nt ask for a change
October 22nd, 2008 03:28
I am with everyone else on this new e-mail. I want the Classic version back. Nothing you have on this page will get you back to Classic version from the new e-mail and it don’t work right. HELP
October 25th, 2008 23:53
this is so stupid, you send us here to change back to classic and no way to do it….can’t contact anyone to help with some kind of link to do it either….I HATE the new windows live hotmail I want the old hotmail where everything worked fine. Nothing works on this new thing
October 29th, 2008 18:29
I learn if you are not a lawer in the USA you will get rip off in the USA. My county sold me a home and they lie so much that you have to be a lawer to gt the truth out of the doing business in the USA. I now have $$$$ as I will not buy a thing in the USA. GOD DAMN LIERS is the contry of the red white and