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Type of site | Webmail, calendaring, contacts, and tasks |
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| Available in | 106 languages |
| Owner | Microsoft |
| URL | outlook |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Required |
| Users | 500 million[1] |
| Launched | July 4, 1996 (as Hotmail) July 31, 2012 (as Outlook.com) |
Content license | Proprietary and Free [citation needed] |
Outlook.com, formerly Hotmail, is a free personal email service offered by Microsoft. This includes a webmail interface featuring mail, calendaring, contacts, and tasks services. Outlook can also be accessed via email clients using the IMAP or POP protocols.
Founded in 1996 by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith as Hotmail, it was acquired by Microsoft in 1997 for an estimated $400 million,[1][2] with it becoming part of the MSN family of online services, branded as MSN Hotmail.[3] In May 2007, the service was rebranded to Windows Live Hotmail, as part of the Windows Live suite of products.[4] It was changed back to Hotmail in October 2011[5] and was fully replaced by Outlook in February 2013,[6] sharing the same brand as the Microsoft Outlook software which is offered via a Microsoft 365 (formerly Microsoft Office) subscription.[7]
Outlook is offered with any Microsoft account, using @outlook.com, @hotmail.com, @msn.com,[a] as well as @live.com and @passport.com (which are no longer offered) domains.[8]
- ^ a b Law, David (July 18, 2016). "Outlook.com leaves preview as the world's fastest growing email service going from 0 to 60 million in just 6 months". Microsoft News. Microsoft. Retrieved February 19, 2013.
- ^ Thurrott, Paul (July 31, 2012). "Outlook.com Mail: Microsoft Reimagines Webmail". Supersite for Windows. Penton Media. Archived from the original on August 3, 2012. Retrieved August 1, 2012.
- ^ "MSN Hotmail: From Zero to 30 Million Members in 30 Months". Stories. February 8, 1999. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
- ^ "Windows Live Hotmail Launches Worldwide in 36 Languages". IT News Online. May 7, 2007. Archived from the original on May 3, 2008. Retrieved October 26, 2010.
- ^ Wilhelm, Alex (October 3, 2011). "Microsoft announces massive Hotmail update to better combat Gmail". The Next Web. Retrieved June 19, 2012.
- ^ "Goodbye Hotmail! Microsoft Moves Users to Outlook.com". ABC News. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
- ^ "Upgrade to Outlook with Microsoft 365 | Microsoft 365". www.microsoft.com. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
- ^ Lambert, Joan (2017). Windows 10 Step by Step (2nd ed.). Microsoft Press. ISBN 9781509306824.
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