translated from Spanish: Microsoft announced that it will close deused Hotmail accounts

The company Microsoft reported that from tomorrow it will permanently delete Hotmail, Live and Outlook accounts that have not registered movement since August 30, 2019. The debugging of Hotmail, Live and Outlook email accounts will be gradual, and will begin to gradually disappear from this August 31. Although there are exceptions that could save accounts with Hotmail, Outlook or Live domain, “said the company.

However, there are ways to maintain an account of these emails if they were used to access, purchase, or redeem any Microsoft products in the past two years. Another exception is if the account has a balance in favor, for example, a gift card.
Over time, some accounts became inactive, either because they moved to another messaging service or because users don’t enter their email, so Microsoft decided to update its activity policy.
The new policy indicated that accounts that have remained inactivity for a period of two years from August 30, 2019 will be deleted, so that this August 30, 2021 many accounts could disappear.

Original source in Spanish