Hotmail
Outlook.com is a free web-based email service run by Microsoft. One of the world’s first webmail services, it was founded in 1996 as Hotmail (stylized as HoTMaiL) by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith in Mountain View, California, and headquartered in Sunnyvale. Hotmail was acquired by Microsoft in 1997 for an estimated $400 million and launched as MSN Hotmail, later rebranded to Windows Live Hotmail as part of the Windows Live suite of products. The last version of Hotmail was released in October 2011. As of mid-2011, Hotmail had 360 million users per month. It was available in 36 languages. In 2013, Hotmail was replaced with Outlook.com, which features Microsoft’s Metro design language, and closely mimics the interface of Microsoft Outlook. It also features unlimited storage, Ajax, and integration with Calendar, OneDrive, People and Skype.
