

Although this wasn’t necessarily achieved through merit alone. That was just the way things were done.īut as more and more people started getting online, and phones actually became smart, Google’s Gmail overtook Hotmail to become the world’s most-used email platform.

If you grew up in the 90s, you almost certainly had an MSN Messenger account and a Hotmail email address. Microsoft bought Hotmail way back when (circa 1997) and the email platform quickly grew to become one of the world’s most popular email services, clocking up over half a billion users worldwide. But what is the difference between Hotmail and Outlook? Let’s find out… Hotmail is used by around half a billion people globally, second only to Google’s Gmail.
