The first version of the Windows Live effort took many existing products such as Hotmail and Messenger and repackaged and branded them. On May 6, 2007, the company officially announced Windows Live Hotmail would replace MSN Hotmail in a global launch available in 36 languages. The company aimed for both personal and small business users. Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates first talked about the Windows Live effort in the fall 2005, announcing the company was entering a new era that would change the face of Web use. We'll look at the history of Windows Live and its e-mail functions, the e-mail's special and unique features, how to set up an account and what might be coming in the future. In this article, we'll discuss the e-mail functions included in Windows Live. The applications and services are free of charge.Į-mail is one of the most popular applications in Internet use and Windows Live support several programs including MSN Hotmail and Windows Live Mail, which allows you to download mail from several other accounts.

Users access some of these services online while downloading others to their hard drives. Windows Live combines applications such as e-mail, instant messaging and word processing with online services such as file sharing, blogs and off-site file storage. Windows Live is Microsoft's integrated suite of services and programs. One of the latest pushes among leading software companies is finding ways to seamlessly integrate different programs, allowing users to move easily from one application to another as they create, share and store information.

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