Hotmail was first launched in the summer of 1996, and it was bought by Microsoft the following year, as the company coasted on the success of its massively popular Windows operating system.

Hotmail was once the go-to email service for millions of users around the world. Even though Microsoft retired the brand in 2013, replacing it with Outlook.com, the nostalgia for that classic ...

Microsoft is pulling the plug on Hotmail, replacing it with something called Outlook.com, an old name for a new service. Anyone who observes IT trends in general and Microsoft in particular had to ...

MSN email addresses still work, but they are managed via Outlook Interestingly enough, the year 2013 also tolled the death knell for Hotmail. The mail platform was founded in 1996 and acquired by ...