

Everything remains in the old account, but the new account – and email address – is starting over with a clean, and empty, slate.

That means everything associated with the old account is lost in the transition: email and contacts as well as additional services like calendars, cloud storage and other items associated with the account. You could create a new email address, but that typically creates a new email account. The problem is that there really hasn’t been and isn’t such a thing as “change” when it comes to an email address. The common reaction is to want to change your email address or close your account. Many people who have had their Hotmail addresses for a long time find that they’re getting a lot of unwanted email in the form of spam, marketing messages from companies that they once did business with, or even messages from individuals that they no longer wish to receive. If you’re like me you’ve had your Hotmail email address for years.
