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Outlook.com is a personal information manager web app from Microsoft consisting of webmail, calendaring, contacts, and tasks services. Founded in 1996 by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith as Hotmail, it was acquired by Microsoft in 1997 for an estimated $400 million and relaunched as MSN Hotmail, later rebranded to Windows Live Hotmail as part of the Windows Live suite of products.
Microsoft profits were $5.2 billion, while Apple Inc. profits were $6 billion, on revenues of $14.5 billion and $24.7 billion respectively. Microsoft's Online Services Division has been continuously loss-making since 2006 and in Q1 2011 it lost $726 million. This follows a loss of $2.5 billion for the year 2010.
A Microsoft account or MSA (previously known as Microsoft Passport,.NET Passport, and Windows Live ID) is a single sign-on Microsoft user account for Microsoft customers to log in to Microsoft services (like Outlook.com), devices running on one of Microsoft's current operating systems (e.g. Microsoft Windows computers and tablets, Windows Phones, and Xbox consoles), and Microsoft application ...
Outlook.com: Yes Yes (POP3, SMTP, IMAP, Microsoft Exchange Server) Yes (POP3 only) Skype, Google Hangouts, Facebook Chat: Via Office 365, some premium plans only HTML/ JavaScript/ CSS/AJAX: Yes Yes, including .exe files in zip files Yes Plus addressing: Via Office 365: Via Office 365: ProtonMail: No Premium plans only through ProtonMail Bridge ...
Windows Live is a discontinued brand name for a set of web services and software products developed by Microsoft as part of its software-as-a-service platform. Chief components under the brand name included web services (all of which were exposed through corresponding web applications), several computer programs that interact with the services, and specialized web services for mobile devices.
Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) is a single sign-on service. With an AD FS infrastructure in place, users may use several web-based services (e.g. internet forum, blog, online shopping, webmail) or network resources using only one set of credentials stored at a central location, as opposed to having to be granted a dedicated set of credentials for each service.
Microsoft Entourage: No Terminated (2008) No No No No No Microsoft Office Outlook: Yes Yes No No No No No Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups: Terminated (1.7.13) No No Mozilla Thunderbird: Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Mulberry: Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Mutt: Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes: No Netscape Messenger: Terminated (4.80) No No Netscape Messenger 9 ...
NSA had access to Outlook.com emails because "Prism collects this data prior to encryption." In addition, Microsoft worked with the FBI to enable the NSA to gain access to its cloud storage service SkyDrive. An internal NSA document dating from August 3, 2012, described the PRISM surveillance program as a "team sport".