Hotmail has grown to become the second most popular emailing service in the world, behind Google Gmail. The Microsoft email service lets you access your inbox on multiple devices from anywhere in the world. Users can download the Hotmail app onto their iPhone or use the built-in email service to manage their inbox on the […]
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How Hotmail changed Microsoft (and email) forever
Enlarge / The many lives of Hotmail. (credit: Sean Gallagher) Twenty years ago this week—on December 29, 1997— Bill Gates bought Microsoft a $ 450 million late Christmas present: a Sunnyvale-based outfit called Hotmail. With the buy—the largest all-cash Internet startup purchase of its day—Microsoft plunged into the nascent world of Web-based email. Originally launched […]