In 2002 Hotmail still ran its infrastructure on UNIX servers, with only the front-end converted to Windows 2000. In June 2001, Microsoft claimed this had been completed a few days later they retracted the statement and admitted that the DNS functions of the Hotmail system were still reliant on FreeBSD. A project was started to move Hotmail to Windows 2000. Hotmail originally ran on a mixture of FreeBSD and Solaris operating systems. Hotmail quickly gained in popularity as it was localized for different markets around the globe, and became the world's largest webmail service with more than 30 million active members reported by February 1999. The sale had been preceded by a major incident in 1997 where all email was lost for 25 % of mailboxes.
Hotmail was sold to Microsoft in December 1997 for a reported $400 million, and it joined the MSN group of services. MSN Hotmail A 2001 Hotmail inbox layout embedded in Microsoft Outlook The old MSN Hotmail inbox from 2007 Hotmail initially ran under Solaris for mail services and Apache on FreeBSD for web services, before being partly converted to Microsoft products, using Windows Services for UNIX in the migration path.
By December 1997, it reported more than 8.5 million subscribers. Hotmail was initially backed by venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson.
The name "Hotmail" was chosen out of many possibilities ending in "-mail" as it included the letters HTML, the markup language used to create web pages (to emphasize this, the original type casing was "HoTMaiL"). It was commercially launched on July 4, 1996, symbolizing "freedom" from ISP-based email and the ability to access a user's inbox from anywhere in the world. If you need to change your password, see Change your password in service was founded by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith, and was one of the first webmail services on the Internet along with Four11's RocketMail (later Yahoo! Mail). We don't recommend using the same password for other services.ĭon't use the same password for different accounts.ĭo make the new password significantly different from previous passwords.ĭon't use a single word for your password.ĭo use a password phrase with no spaces between words.ĭon't use easy-to-remember personal information like your name, names of family members, your address, or phone number.ĭo use an easy-to-remember sentence or phrase converted into a string of initials, numbers, or symbols.ĭon't use passwords like "password," "money$$$," or "12345678."ĭo make your password hard to guess even if someone knows a lot about you (avoid names and birthdays of your family, or your favorite band). Create a unique strong password for and change it periodically. A strong password contains letters, numbers, punctuation, symbols, and numbers.
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