Hotmail, now known as Windows Live Hotmail, celebrates Monday its fifteenth anniversary. The webmailaanbieder has grown to become one of the largest websites for free, provideronafhankelijke e-mail services.
At the end of 1997 recorded Hotmail 8.5 million users. The webmaildienst was in the same year acquired by Microsoft and quickly transformed into a multi-lingual service. Hotmail was in the course of the years, more and more closely integrated with Microsoft services such as Windows Live and MSN, but the service was many times compromised because of security issues. Also had Hotmail, like other email providers, faced with the rise of spam.
In the Netherlands Hotmail also in 2011, a large-scale; according to Microsoft, has Hotmail a market share of 85 percent, and log in monthly to 7.7 million uk citizens in the webmaildienst. The global number of users would at 369 million. Further claims that in Microsoft’s Hotmail on the fourth place of most visited websites, while approximately 45 percent of the users only have a Hotmail address used for e-mail traffic.
Although Hotmail is now renamed Windows Live Hotmail, Microsoft brand name, not wanting to let them fall. In addition, investing in the software giant still in his webmaildienst. So did Microsoft, thanks to newly introduced html 5-technique, to Hotmail, to his own words, ” significantly accelerated.