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Jack Smith first had the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world, originally as an impetus from getting by corporate firewalls blocking regular mail services. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in 'mail' and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters " HTML" - the markup language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective upper casing.

Hotmail was backed by the venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson and was later sold to Microsoft corporation, which rebranded it under its MSN umbrella. By December 1997, Hotmail reported more than 8.5 million subscribers. [1] By February 1999 it reported more than 30 million active members. [2] Hotmail serves e-mail accounts in many countries and is currently the largest webmail provider.

Hotmail offers its members 250MB of free e-mail storage, be it used for sent or received e-mail. However, a large number of users still have only 2MB storage, especially new and barely active accounts. For a fee, customers have had the use of 2GB storage. In contrast, Yahoo! MailYahoo! Mail is a Web-based e-mail ( Webmail) service from Yahoo!. That is, the service requires only a Web browser, not special software. It is one of the biggest e-mail providers on the Internet, serving millions of users. Yahoo! Mail was born in 1997 wh offers 100MB for free with 2GB offered at a price, GmailGmail is a free webmail service, currently in beta testing, run by Google. It was announced on March 31, 2004, but many became aware of it on April 1. There was speculation that this announcement was an April Fool's joke, because of the 1 gigabyte limit o from GoogleThis page is about Google Inc. For the search engine produced by Google Inc. see Google. Google Inc. is a U. based corporation, founded in 1998 that runs and manages the Google search engine. Google is headquartered (at the " Googleplex") in Mountain View offers 1GB for free.

While Hotmail does not have POP3Post Office Protocol version 3 POP3 is an application layer Internet standard protocol used to retrieve email from a remote server to a local client over a TCP/IP connection. Nearly all individual Internet service provider email accounts are accessed via email access, it is possible to check your email using Microsoft OutlookMicrosoft Outlook is a personal information manager and email client program from Microsoft, and is part of the Microsoft Office suite. Although often used mainly as an e-mail application, it also provides calendar, task and contact management. It can be and Outlook ExpressMicrosoft Outlook Express is a email client and NNTP news reader bundled with operating systems and the Internet Explorer web browser by Microsoft, and also available as a no-charge download for the "classic" Apple Macintosh operating system (although not on PCIBM PC compatible refers to a class of computers which make up the vast majority of smaller computers ( microcomputers) on the market today. They are based (without IBM's participation) on the original IBM PC. They use the Intel x86 architecture and are c and Microsoft EntourageEntourage is the Macintosh equivalent of Microsoft Outlook, developed by Microsoft Corporation. It currently combines a email client, calendar and 'project manager'. It is a personal information manager for Macintosh. External link Mac OS software. on Mac, using the WebDAV protocol. While this service was free for a number of years, Microsoft announced on September 27 2004 that they were making it a subscription-only service for new users immediately and existing users from April 2005.

On November 18 2004, Hotmail began offering email addresses from several country-specific domains.

The account is temporarily deactivated (all messages cleared, although not the address book) if the user abandons it for a month or more. It may even be permanently deleted eventually.