Although Hotmail email addresses still exist, Outlook.com has totally supplanted the Hotmail service. Users get unlimited storage, a calendar, contacts, Ajax, and tight integration with OneDrive, Office Online, and Skype while using Outlook.com.
What is Hotmail?
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What is Hotmail?
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One of the early webmail services was Hotmail. Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith founded Hotmail in 1996 in California. Microsoft bought the company in 1997 for $400 million and rebranded it as MSN Hotmail. The rebranding didn't end there; it was renamed Windows Live Hotmail before being renamed Outlook.com in 2013. As of 2014, Microsoft claims that the webmail had over 400 million active users.