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From 1995 to 1998, the MSN.com domain was used by Microsoft primarily to promote MSN as an online service and Internet service provider. At the time, MSN.com also offered a custom start page and an Internet tutorial, but Microsoft's major web portal was known as "Microsoft Internet Start", and was located at home.microsoft.com.
A 2001 Hotmail inbox layout embedded in Microsoft Outlook The old MSN Hotmail inbox from 2007. Hotmail was sold to Microsoft in December 1997 for a reported $400 million (~$705 million in 2023), and it joined the MSN group of services. [17] The sale had been preceded by a major incident in 1997 where all email was lost for 25% of mailboxes. [18]
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Microsoft account, a user login service (previously MSN Passport) Outlook.com, a webmail and calendar service (previously MSN Hotmail and MSN Calendar) Windows Live, the umbrella name under which several MSN services were rebranded; Windows Live Messenger, an instant messaging client (previously MSN Messenger)
Outlook for Windows (also referred to as New Outlook) is an email client developed by Microsoft. It is a replacement of the preloaded Windows Mail , Calendar apps and the contact management People app on Windows 10 and 11 , and is shipping as default with all versions of Windows 11 since 2024, beginning with version 24H2 .
He, along with his colleague Jack Smith, set up Hotmail on 4 July 1996, American Independence Day, symbolizing "freedom" from ISP-based e-mail and the ability to access a user's inbox from anywhere in the world. [7] As president and CEO, Bhatia led Hotmail until its eventual acquisition by Microsoft in 1998 for an estimated $400 million.
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The second Microsoft Mail product, Microsoft Mail for PC Networks 2.1, [3] was introduced in 1991. It was based on Network Courier, a LAN email system produced by Consumers Software of Vancouver, B.C., which Microsoft had bought. Following the initial 1991 rebranding release, Microsoft issued its first major update as Version 3.0 in 1992.