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September 28, 2004
Hotmail charges for Outlook
Today it was announced that Microsoft's Hotmail e-mail service would no longer allow free download of Hotmail e-mails to Outlook Express, or other e-mail clients.
Apparently up to 18 million users could be affected, but Microsoft chiefs insist that the move is necessary to fight abuse of their free e-mail service, and their general strategy against spam.
the story is well-covered here:
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39167937,00.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3697286.stm
Posted by brian_turner at September 28, 2004 04:26 PM
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