
Microsoft has supported Hotmail addresses since it bought the service in 1997, and I don’t expect it will ever stop supporting them. However, anything sent to your Hotmail address will still arrive in the same inbox, so it doesn’t really matter. If you email everyone from your address, most people will start using it eventually. You can now use the same inbox to send emails from both your old Hotmail and your new addresses, and switch between them.

(You can get to it via the full Settings page, Email, Sync email etc but it’s complicated.) Create an alias in the form and set this as your primary email address. To do this, log into Hotmail and then paste into the address bar.

Hotmail General Manager Rick Holzli at the Microsoft offices, California, in 2002.
