Main differences between MSN, Hotmail and Outlook

Differences MSN Hotmail and Outlook: What are the main ones?

Differences MSN Hotmail and Outlook: What are the main ones?

Today, the relevance and use of instant messaging applications and chat apps is evident and growing. But email it remains an integral part of daily online life, both for individuals and businesses.

However, every story has a beginning and relevant points that make it worth telling. And as for the free email online, was the company Microsoft who initially acquired and launched the first free email service, which has evolved over time. For this reason, today we will know the main “MSN Hotmail and Outlook differences” to learn a little more about the changes and adaptations of these services of the North American Technological Giant.

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"In his day, Hotmail It became the most important email service in the world. But everything changed from 2012, when it was integrated into Microsoft, specifically as part of its email services in Outlook. Among other things, this change meant that the hotmail.com domain was no longer used, in addition to other visual changes. Logging in to Hotmail is different now.” Sign in to Hotmail: all options

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Differences MSN Hotmail and Outlook: Microsoft Services

Differences MSN Hotmail and Outlook: Microsoft Services

Differences MSN Hotmail and Outlook: What are the main ones?

Between the Historical facts, news and features what differentiates MSN, Hotmail and Outlook, we can highlight as outstanding or important, the following in an individual top for each one:

MSN (Hotmail) – 1996 / 2007

  1. It was one of the pioneering completely free email services. And it was created independently by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith in the year 1996.
  2. Its name (Hotmail) came from playing with the acronym HTML, from the HTML language that is used to create web pages. This caused that in its beginnings, the email service was written many times, in the following way: HoTMaiL.
  3. MSN was sold to Microsoft in December 1997 for $400 million, before it was merged into its MSN services and renamed MSN Hotmail.
  4. Start with a free storage limit of 2 MB. And it was one of the first to offer a chat service in real time, through MSN Messenger.
  5. It was one of the largest email services in the world while it existed. Reaching register up to 324 million members, surpassing Gmail and Yahoo. In addition, it was available in up to 36 different languages.

(Windows Live) Hotmail – 2007 / 2013

  1. This new free online email service came to life between 2005 and 2007, after a long period of testing in Beta development phases.
  2. It was built from scratch, seeking to stand out for being faster, simpler and safer than its predecessor. That is, it focused on improving aspects such as speed, storage and usability (user experience).
  3. It directly included many banner-type ads and pop-up type pop-ups.
  4. In May 2010, it had an update called "Wave 4", which offered among many new features such as filters, active views, swipe inbox, and 10GB of all-in-one space.
  5. Before evolving again, the service merged with the Microsoft authentication scheme (Microsoft Passport, currently Microsoft account) and began integration with the Social Networks of the moment and Instant Messaging, and other Microsoft services at the time.

Outlook – 2013 / today (2022)

  1. This online email service was released in 2013, as a single platform, much lighter and more functional, with increased storage capacity and much more productive tools.
  2. I start as a much more advanced email service, by including a task organizer and a means of communication in real time.
  3. It has a cleaner and fresher image, and much more adaptable to any device. Through a much simpler user interface, but with more options available to the user.
  4. Allows custom configuration of the color palette and layout of the inbox. Including the size and font of the letter used.
  5. It maintains the structure of the usual mailbox folders, but added the added benefit of being able to create custom folders.
  6. Keeps the display of banner ads and pop-ups to a minimum.
  7. It includes the functionality to show (filter/separate) as advertising emails those coming from official emails only. For example, bank web domains, or other recognized companies with subscription services.
  8. It offers greater integration with Social Networks. Making it possible to receive real-time notifications from many of these, such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
  9. It has greater integration with the Microsoft cloud, to increase data management and storage. In such a way, to allow and facilitate the execution of online document editing work, of any type (Word, Excel, PowerPoint or any other format).
  10. It includes new and improved security elements that increase the reliability of the user-interface interaction, allowing the free service to be raised to levels of corporate use.

More about Outlook

Official information

And since, Outlook is the latest and most modern free online email service from Microsoft, we recommend you Learn more about this service and how to use its new interface by exploring the following links:

"Outlook.com is a free email service for your personal email. Anyone can go to https://outlook.com and sign up for a free email account. Formerly known as Hotmail.com and Live.com, you can use Outlook.com if your email address ends with @outlook.com, @hotemail.com, @msn.com, or @live.com". Choose the correct version of Outlook

What is Outlook currently like?

Appearance

Currently, when starting Outlook we can see that it has the following appearance or graphical user interface:

Outlook: Current appearance 2022

Outlook: Workgroups

Features

  • Top bar: With an access button in the upper left corner for Microsoft 365 applications (Office, Skype, OneDrive and many others) and other Microsoft company online services (Bing, MSN and others). An internal search bar, and direct links to start online meetings using Skype, get QR codes for login, access open Skype chats, access OneNote, calendar, settings menu, help section , the news section and the button to access the profile and log out.
  • Left sidebar: With buttons for shortcuts to the mail interface, the calendar window, the contacts section, the attachments section, the task / ToDo list section, and the online Office applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote.
  • New message button: To launch the window for creating a new email message.
  • Favorites folders: Which includes default access to the following folders, Inbox, Sent Items, Drafts, Junk Mail, Deleted Items. Plus an option to add others as favorites.
  • Folders: Which includes default access to the following folders, Inbox, Junk Mail, Drafts, Sent Items, Deleted Items, Files, Notes, and any other created by the user. Plus an option to generate other new folders.
  • Groups: Option that includes the possibility of generating new work groups.

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Summary

In summary, the Tech Giant Microsoft over time it has evolved all its online services, including those related to email. And therefore, its well-known online services known as MSN, Hotmail and Outlook they have been changing, adapting and improving over time for a better acceptance of their online User Community, and to continue attracting new users. Therefore, we hope that this content on the main “MSN Hotmail and Outlook differences” clarifies many doubts for those who have had them.

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  1.   Claudia Segovia said

    The story is missing the Outlook Express part. While Outlook was installed with the Office package (which could or could not be installed), Outlook Express was installed with Windows, that is, it was part of the operating system already installed on the computer, making the user get used to using it, in instead of looking for other alternatives, such as Pegasus or Eudora (using a similar practice with the browser, which got users used to using Internet Explorer for a long time, replacing the Netscape that was already used before, by coming with the installation of the operating system ).
    Another thing is that the files where the emails were saved on the computer were unique and grew larger and larger over time, which increased the possibility that they could become corrupted with use, and all the emails would be lost. Some alternatives (such as Pegasus) did not have this problem, because they saved each message in a separate file.

  2.   Jose Albert said

    Greetings Claudius. Thank you for your excellent comment and great contribution referring to the existence of Outlook Express.