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Msn Hotmail
Windows Live Hotmail, which was previously known as MSN hotmail, is commonly referred to simply as Hotmail. This is a free web mail service of the Windows Live brand provided by Microsoft. 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. In 1997 it was acquired by Microsoft for $400 million and baptized and re-branded as MSN Hotmail. 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.
Hotmail is actually used by more than 260 million people all over the world. The improved MSN Hotmail version brings 5GB free storage space, high-quality security features, an integrated live messenger and lots of practical functions. 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.
The Hotmail structure allows the use of the keyboard controls so that the movement around the page doesn’t even require the use of the mouse. 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. Among these we can count the audio player, folders that users can create and in which they can store customized information and which are never deleted unless the user chooses to. Last but not least, the reading pane, the spell checker and the variety of themes complete the list of capabilities.
{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. As a statistic detail here 921 million visitors and users were attracted by the domain live.com by the year 2008 annually.
