HOTMAIL
Hotmail was born on July 4th, 1996 – the creation of a Silicon Valley startup founded by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith. It was one of the very first services to offer free web-based e-mail.
Originally, Hotmail was spelled “HoTMaiL,” emphasizing its use of HTML for the web user interface. Hotmail became popular quickly, and by the end of 1997 already had millions of customers. Hotmail was acquired by Microsoft late in 1997 and was later integrated with another acquisition – The web-based calendar service, Jump.
Hotmail continued to grow very quickly – reaching tens of millions of users in just a few years.
Today, Hotmail has provisioned well over a billion inbox and has several hundred million active users around the world.
Over the last several years, the Hotmail team has re-engineered the service from the ground up while growing Hotmail at an astounding pace.
They have made critical investments to get their software where they want it to be and to give them the ability to deliver great features, great performance, great reliability, and great integration across Windows Live.
Relationship between hotmail and Journalism
Hotmail, together with other mail media, provides a platform for journalists to create and utilise their email accounts and allow them to communicate (send or receive emails) with people of their choice.
A couple of years ago hotmail increased the email memory for all their users to a size that is similar to other email services such as Yahoo that will allow people such as journalists to keep their mails in the long run for future purposes.
Advantage of having Hotmail
Windows Live Hotmail is available in 36 languages in the following worldwide markets: Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium (in French and Dutch), Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada (in English and French), Chile, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India (in English), Indonesia (in English), Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia (in English), Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines (in English), Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore (in English), Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa (in English), Spain, Sweden, Switzerland (in German and French), Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine and the United States (in English and Spanish).
So journalists all over the world may be able to communicate with each other while using a language of their choice.
Well, as a disadvantage, is that last year they changed their email software to a new update that makes it somehow slower and more confusing way to manage emails.
Reference
paui94.blogspot.com/2006/.../advantages-and-disadvantages-of-msn.htm
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