![]() ![]() ![]() After the sale, Microsoft began the process to move Hotmail to Windows 2000. Hotmail and its (at the time) 8.5 million subscribers were sold to Microsoft in December 1997 for a reported $400 million. The original Hotmail service ran on a mixture of FreeBSD and Solaris. Within two and a half years of its launch, Hotmail was the world’s largest email service, with more than 30 million active members. But while the firm praised the idea it remained unconvinced that such a service would attract enough members to build a company around it. ![]() The duo came up with their idea for a free email service and approached venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson for funding in 1995. ‘HoTMaiL’, as it was styled (HTML is upper-case) was the brainchild of co-founders Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith. The Independence Day launch aimed to symbolise the “freedom” Hotmail offered - from ISP-based email as well as the ability to access your inbox from anywhere in the world. Be free from your internet service provider!” Proclaimed the world’s first web-based email when it launched on 4 th July 1996. In return, we are going to give you a great new way to get email. 4 July 1996 - Microsoft Hotmail Independence Day Launch ![]()
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