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Microsoft purchased its first email service, Hotmail, almost seventeen years ago from founders Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith. After a $400 million, exchange and effort to move the service from a Linux based operating system to Windows 2000 ? MSN Hotmail, as we knew it was born.
Now in the year 2014, a year after Outlook.com took over the reins and stepped down from its ?preview? state to replace MSN Hotmail ? Microsoft is ready to celebrate and look back at what the product has brought to consumers around the globe. Moreover, do not have any doubts, Microsoft considers Outlook.com as ?the best email choice for people around the world? and the service?s 420 million active users helps to support that claim.
Full story from the WPCentral blog...