Live.com Biography & Web Analysis

Outlook.com is an individual information web application from Microsoft consisting of webmail, calendaring, contacts, and tasks services. Founded in 1996 by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith, Hotmail was acquired by Microsoft in 1997 for an estimated $400 million and relaunched as MSN Hotmail, later rebranded to Windows Live Hotmail as a feature of the Windows Live set-up of products. Microsoft eliminated Hotmail in October 2011, relaunching the service as Outlook.com in 2012 

Hotmail service was established by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith, and was one of the first webmail services on the Internet alongside Four11's RocketMail (later Yahoo! Mail). It was commercially launched on July 4, 1996, representing "freedom" from ISP-based email and the ability to access a user's inbox from anyplace in the world. The name "Hotmail" 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"). The limit for free storage was 2 MB. Hotmail was initially backed by venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson. By December 1997, it reported more than 8.5 million subscribers. Hotmail initially ran under Solaris for mail services and Apache on FreeBSD for web services, before being somewhat partly converted to Microsoft products, using Windows Services for UNIX in the movement way.