Hotmail is Associated With and Known as:
Outlook.com is a webmail site that was launched on 4th of July 1996 with the name Hotmail and changed its name to Outlook.com on 31st of July 2012 with the releasing of its beta version. The site came into existence through the efforts of Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smithin Mountain View, California, United States. This site is available in more than 106 languages for the people. Outlook.com is a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation that is the world's leading computer software and hardware company based in the United States. It was purchased by Microsoft Corporation in the year 1997 for against around $400 million. It is one of the fastest growing companies in the social networking industry and according to the year 2013, it had approximately 420 million users. The company is also engaged to deliver the different support services for the users such as, troubleshooting, e-mail contacts, calendar basics, account protection and much more. It also received honor at Editor's Choice Award from PC Magazine Three times such as, in the month of February 2007, March 2007 and February 2011.
Features of Hotmail
Outlook.com features are unlimited storage,
Skype integration, integration with Calendar, SkyDrive, Aliases and Ajax. Microsoft
Outlook also gives the facility for the users to navigate with the keyboard without using mouse. It is compatible with many browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and
Google Chrome. The site assures users privacy and doesn't scan emails and post advertisement. Its
Active View feature provides a way to access directly with documents and functionality along with the email messages. The company provides Sweep option that is simply known as virtual broom for helping the users in deleting or moving the large number of emails. It provides two step verification for the users security since 17th of April 2013 and also have Extended Validation Certificate for making the secure connections. The company provides maximum size of for a
Hotmail message can be of 25 MB and provides storage capacity of 5GB for each account.
E-mail Client Support for hotmail
The company uses different protocols for connecting the e-mail clients such as DeltaSync, POP3, Exchange ActiveSync (EAS), and Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP). DeltaSync provides facility to view email messages, contact list, and calendars with the help of Microsoft Outlook Hotmail Connector from Outlook.com account. Post Office Protocol or POP introduced its third version named as POP3 that provides option to access Hotmail accounts from any e-mail client. Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) introduced by Microsoft for the people to run email, contacts, and calendar on any device. The Internet Message Access Protocol or IMAP that is used for retrieval and storage purposes.
Headquarters Address of Microsoft Corporation:
Microsoft Corporation has its global headquarters at One Microsoft Way, Redmond 98052, Washington, United States.
Customer Service Numbers of Microsoft Corporation:
The customers can received support services by calling at
+1-425-882-8080 and
1-800-642-7676.
Official Website of Hotmail:
Microsoft Corporation launched its website for hotmail is
www.hotmail.com that provides option to sign in with your account and view e-mail messages.
Microsoft Corporation on Social Media Websites:
Microsoft Corporation is also available on different social media websites to stay connected with people. The social media profile links are given below:
Facebook Profile Link:
www.facebook.com/MicrosoftIndia
Twitter Profile Link:
www.twitter.com/MicrosoftIndia
Linkedin Profile Link:
www.linkedin.com/company/microsoft
