Microsoft shoots Hotmail in the head, TechWorld, 20 Jan 2005

“Microsoft Office Outlook Live costs $59.95 per year and includes Office Outlook 2003 plus 2GB of online storage, spam and virus protection and the ability to send 20MB attachments. All is not what it seems however. For years there has been a free link-up between Outlook and Hotmail, where Hotmail can be effectively run through the desktop e-mail software. But Microsoft announced at the end of September that this would stop with all new Hotmail accounts and stop for everyone else in April.�

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