Microsoft the software giant killed its long standing email
service Hotmail and gave its mail service over to ‘social-friendly’ Outlook.com.
The changes include the new email address “@outlook.com “ which
will replace the older “@hotmail.com” address, used by millions worldwide for more than 10 years of
its service. Users can already "Upgrade to Outlook.com" to keep
their existing address.
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Hotmail still the
world's largest email service with 324 million users (about 36 per cent of the
market) but had been losing its market to Google's fast-growing Gmail with 425
million users!
Hotmail was launched in 1996 by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith
and acquired by Microsoft in 1997 for an estimated $400 million. The rebranding
and overhaul of Microsoft's email service is Microsoft's first major change in
its email service in 10 years.
Microsoft is hoping that the new Outlook.com as a free mail
service that pulls features from Hotmail and Exchange. It is designed for both personal consumer use, Microsoft continues to
position Outlook as its business e-mail client.
We call it ‘social-friendly’ Outlook.com because;
