Microsoft marries Hotmail and Outlook in new service

Thursday, January 20, 2005 by Island Dog | Discussion: Personal Computing

I think the price is too high for this service.


Microsoft (Profile, Products, Articles) is launching on Thursday a subscription service that offers users a tight link between the company's MSN Hotmail Web mail service and its Outlook e-mail client PC software.

The new service, called Microsoft Office Outlook Live, costs $59.95 per year and includes Office Outlook 2003 for Subscription Services, which is a new downloadable subscription version of Office Outlook 2003, 2GB of online storage, spam, and virus protection, and the ability to send 20MB attachments.

Outlook Live has been designed as a single interface to subscribers' Hotmail accounts so that they can use Outlook Live to access, send, and receive e-mail messages and manage their contacts and calendars, said Karin Muskopf, MSN product manager. Changes made using Outlook Live are reflected in the Hotmail accounts.


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CygnusXII
Reply #1 Thursday, January 20, 2005 1:44 PM
This is odd, because I already use Outlook to access my Hotmail account. Not the bundled express version, but Outlook in OfficeXP Proper


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