Review: Microsoft's 'Kahuna' falls short
Seattle PI | at | by Mike
I signed up for my first Hotmail account in 1996 when a tech-savvy friend told me it would be part of the wave of the future.
"Imagine it, this e-mail address travels with you," he said. "You don't even have to be on your home computer." I quickly signed up and have been hooked ever since.
But somewhere along the line, it seemed as if Microsoft just stopped caring about the free Web-based e-mail service it bought in 1997. The once-groundbreaking Hotmail quickly became a dinosaur to feature-rich rivals from Yahoo, Google and Time Warner's AOL.