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Hotmail (First era)

1996-1997

Hotmail was launched on July 4, 1996. Its original name and capitalization refers to HTML, the encoding language used by the World Wide Web.


1997-1998

MSN Hotmail

1998-1999

Hotmail was sold to Microsoft on December 1997, and soon after it was added to the MSN group of services and renamed MSN Hotmail.


1999-2006

As a result of the new MSN logo, the Hotmail logo was also changed.

Windows Live Hotmail

2007-2010

In 2007, MSN Hotmail integrated into the new Windows Live services, becoming Windows Live Hotmail.

2010-2011

With the release of Windows Live Wave 4 update in mid 2010, Hotmail got a new logo.


2011-2012

Mshotmail


All Windows Live services are rebranded to Microsoft as they decide to kill off the Windows Live brand. The icon has also been refreshed.

Hotmail (Second era)

2012


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