Microsoft launched its new Outlook email service yesterday and achieved the impossible by being bloody brilliant. Now, early adopters are swarming over usernames, and some have managed to snag email addresses that you’d think Microsoft should have kept to one side.
The Verge reports that, so far, some rather famous names have had their email addresses grabbed:
- steveballmer@outlook.com (claimed by PC Pro)
- ballmer@outlook.com (which has now spawned the excellent Ballmer on Ballmer)
- gates@outlook.com (also featuring on Ballmer on Ballmer)
- donotreply@outlook.com (snagged by Ryan Hoffman)
- good@outlook.com (OK, so that one’s just amusing)
It’s odd that Microsoft didn’t reserve addresses like donotreply. That leads us to suspect that there must be plenty more where they came from — so leave a comment if you’ve signed up with a particularly good one. [The Verge]
4chan, specifically /g/ got a bunch of good ones.
lookout@outlook.com ?
Brilliant!
Snagged gizmodo@outlook
enjoytheview@outlook.com
probably the only one that matters would have been the donotreply, and potential a few other such system/admin ones in common use.
gates@outlook.com, why would they need to register this? Same for ballmer@outlook. I'm sure that if either of them wanted an email address, they could use an @microsoft
i wonder whether my systems_admin@hotmail.com account is still mine?
don't ask me why but I made steve.wozniak@outlook.com
feel free to say hello