Credits go to: Car Bed Child. Windows Live Hotmail, which was previously known as MSN hotmail, is commonly referred to simply as Hotmail. It is a free web mail service provided by Microsoft as part of the Windows Live brand. After the initial Hotmail launch on July 4, 1996, the service saw all sorts of improvements and releases over the years, with the latest made in December 2008.
The fathers of the Hotmail web service were Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith who designed it before it became the property of Microsoft. The purchase by the giant and the re-branding as MSN Hotmail occurred in 1997. The current version, that is Windows Live Hotmail, which was officially announced on November 1, 2005, appeared as an update to the existing MSN Hotmail service. After beta tests, the improved version had the official launch in the Netherlands in the autumn of 2006.
At the moment there are 260 million people using Hotmail all over the world. Windows Live Hotmail or MSN Hotmail comes with 5GB of free storage, Ajax technology, patented security measures and integration with Windows live messenger, Contacts, Calendar and Spaces. Just like other important web mail services, MSN hotmail also uses Ajax programming technology and it supports the most well known Internet browsers: Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.
Hotmail includes the keyboard controls which give the user the ability to move around the page without using the mouse or the advanced message search which includes query syntax.
There are message filters, folder-based organization of the files, auto-completion of contact details for message composition, virus scanning and advanced SPAM filter. Some other features are: contact grouping, rich text signature, and rich text formatting.
The nice thing about MSN hotmail is that it also provides some features which are not common with the other webmail services. For instance, the audio player and the customized information remain in the full management of the user. Other capabilities offered by MSN hotmail are: integration, reading pane, spell checker, security and different themes.
{When registeringOn registration}, the new users can choose from an MSN Hotmail domain address (@hotmail.com, @hotmail.co.uk, @hotmail.fr or a localized Windows Live domain (@live.com, @live.ca, @live.co.uk, @live.jp, @live.nl, @live.fr, @live.com.au.
According to statistics, 921 million visitors started using the live.com domain per year, by 2008.
Credits go to: Kids Beds.
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