Like many others, I am wondering whatever happened to all my old Hotmail emails when everything switched to Outlook.com.  Please don't tell me to try to restore missing emails, that was pointless.  I have yet to see a complete, helpful answer.  If it's that Microsoft just deleted everything irrevocably for those who were not active in Hotmail at the time, just tell me so I can get over it and not try to get everything restored.  Thank you.
Hello,

I am DEEPLY sadden by the realization that I've lost ALL of my hotmail emails b/c the account was inactive for more than a year. 
It archived most of my high school chat and valuable memories. I am in disbelief to know that such thing has happened...

Please let me know if there is any way to retrieve these treasured emails... or at least confirm that they are indeed gone... forever gone like William Hung videos.... ;( times a billion

I STILL do not receive my hotmail emails on my iphone 4s.

first it started with some randomly not coming through however now it just doesnt work. I have tried deleting the mail fromy my phone and setting it all up again but it doesnt work.

PLEASE HELP. I am having to switch ALL my emails to Yahoo. SO FRUSTRATING!!!! fix it already please?

(it is so ironic that there is a box below this post which needs to be ticked to be notified when someone responds to this post. I am assuming the notification will be through email. Great.

Hi,
I have had my Hotmail.com account for years and it contained many important old emails. 

When I tried to sign in today 8th November 2013, I was redirected to Outlook.com don't have any Hotmail emails.  
Where have they all gone ?  Please help I had very important emails in my account.

There could have been possible inactivity on the account but that doesn't mean you would clear the entire data from my inbox. You could have archived the data and suspended the account for inactivity. None of that has happened. There was no warning sent to my secondary email address as well. 
There has to be a way to recover it. Please Please Help !!!!
Regards
Vishal Nagda
My Hotmail emails are gone and I cant get to Hotmail just outlook.  They were there yesterday.  How do I get them back?
I have had no outgoing and only occasional incoming hotmail emails(1 per day) since Sunday  The internet is fine. I had a live chat with Rick yesterday morning regarding this issue, and he said that I would hear from MSN technicians WITHIN 24 hours, to my husbands email address. 
I have not heard anything yet and was wanting to know when this situation would be resolved?
I have just purchased a new laptop and have installed windows 8.1. I now can't see any of my emails (old or new) or have any contacts. I can still access everything on my other laptop logging in outlook with my Hotmail address but I only have that laptop for a few more days and need to get this sorted ASAP. I can't change my email address as it is linked to too many things.

Hi, I've recently bought a new laptop and it's automatically taking me to outlook as my new email account when I type in Hotmail.com it is taking me to an empty inbox in outlook and won't open up my old Hotmail inbox anywhere? Any help much appreciated as need to read my old emails..!

Thanks

So I bought a new tablet from John Lewis and I asked for help inputting apps and emails on it. The gentleman kindly 'fixed' it for me. Or so I thought. He combined my gmail account with my hotmail account and now im not receivng any of my hotmail emails and everything seems to have been deleted from my account.

Can anyone please explain to me in layman's terms whats going on? And how to sort this issue out? John Lewis hasnt helped nor has the microsoft customer services team.