Is Hotmail Yesterday's Baby at Microsoft? No chance

Hotmail, which passes by the moniker Windows Live Hotmail nowadays, has a long and twisting history as a free, electronic email benefit. Numerous individuals have surrendered Hotmail for Gmail and Yahoo Mail, however Windows Live Hotmail is still to a greater extent a point of convergence at Microsoft (s MSFT) than you may might suspect, as another post on the Windows group blog substantiates.

At the point when Hotmail was sold to Microsoft in December 1997 for an announced $400 million, it turned out to be a piece of the MSN administrations, and the product mammoth stripped it of a significant part of the open-source plumbing that it kept running on. At the point when Google conveyed Gmail in 2004, it included definitely more free stockpiling than clients got with Hotmail, Yahoo Mail or AOL Mail records, and individuals keep on relocating to it. Be that as it may, Microsoft has relentlessly enhanced Windows Live Hotmail, and it even won PC Magazine's Editor's Choice honor in a gathering of webmail contributions in 2007. Microsoft fundamentally helped its execution and made a heap of ease of use enhancements in 2008.

This week, Microsoft's Arthur de Haan, who is in charge of Test and System Engineering in Windows Live, has an instructive look in the background of Windows Live Hotmail, found here. Here are a portion of the subtleties de Haan supplies on Windows Live Hotmail's engineering and reach:

Hotmail serves 59 territorial markets, in 36 dialects.

Microsoft has well over 1.3 billion inboxes. (A few clients have different inboxes.)

In excess of 350 million individuals effectively utilize Hotmail on a month to month premise (source: comScore, August 2009).

Microsoft handles more than 3 billion messages every day and sift through in excess of 1 billion spam messages — mail that you never find in your inbox.

Add up to Hotmail stockpiling develops at more than 2 petabytes every month. (A petabyte is 1,000 terabytes.)

Microsoft as of now has more than 155 petabytes of capacity conveyed. (70% of capacity is taken up with connections, normally photographs.)

Windows Live Hotmail is the biggest SQL Server 2008 sending on the planet.

The post from de Haan additionally noticed that particular Windows Live Hotmail accounts are facilitated on different appropriated bunches in numerous server farms far and wide. Different sorts of excess are utilized to ensure against blackouts.

Hurray Mail remains the piece of the pie pioneer in webmail, however numerous individuals don't understand that Windows Live Hotmail is No. 2, as indicated by ComScore's information, with Gmail well behind it in third place. (Gmail is more quickly developing, however.) Especially as Microsoft pushes ahead with cloud-based applications and online administrations, it can use the webmail share that it has, and tie Hotmail in with them. Obviously, the organization hasn't tossed in the Hotmail towel.