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Guess what, Its Hotmail’s 10th birthday. It was founded by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith in 1995, but it was commercially launched in 1996 and later acquired by Microsoft. Back then it was very popular, I still remember those days when I used a combination of Hotmail and Outlook Express for emails.

Hotmail has been extremely popular among the netcitizens from UK. Nearly 43% of UK use Hotmail Inboxes and one fifth of UK’s population has made friendship through Hotmail.

Currently I’m satisfied with GMail, but Hotmail still rules the segment with 1 billion emails reaching Hotmail inboxes daily and is internationally available in 17 different languages.

Happy Birthday Hotmail

via CyberNet



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  1. Wow, it’s been this long already?! That’s awesome. I still have a Hotmail account, but I’m slowly moving away from it, using it less and less, while using my Gmail more and more. But I still remember the time when having a Hotmail account was so cool :D

    PS! I think “launched in 2006″ should say “launched in 1996″ :P

  2. Tina: Thanks, I’ve updated the post. This is what happens if I sit late night blogging :D

  3. Great… happy b’day to it… hotmail is been one the FAVORITES … if not FAMOUS… i bet a techy will have a hotmail a/c even thought he does not use it much… :) so do I…

  4. Hotmail was always my favorite email service, sure gmail has ajax and a huge inbox, but I just don’t like the interface.

  5. Afterlife(69): I share the same feeling towards Gmail… so I use Thunderbird to grab all mails

  6. :P I’m just too damn lazy to use a email client, clicking a button on msn works for me!

  7. Hotmail - Born from the hands of an indian , nurtured by Microsoft

  8. Hotmail is great, if I ever want a free E-Mail I don’t think of going anywhere else

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