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Hotmail brings back ancient POP3 support
By Fabio on Sunday March 15th 2009 03:16 | Category: Web
After years of absence the POP3 support is now once more available for all Hotmail users. Hotmail lost many of it's users to Google's Gmail service which supported POP3 and IMAP from day one. Microsoft must have realised this and brought back the old POP3 protocol from the 'paid' to the 'free' section, however many Gmail users claim never to return to their old Hotmail habbits.
Way back in the days (when POP3 was brand new) and IMAP was still in heavy development there was this company, and not any company; Microsoft, offering a free online webservice. Everyone loved it and soon Microsoft (being the company that they are) saw an opportunity to strip down the full functionality and put it in a 'paid' section leaving only the bare minimum, amongst those features was the POP3 support.
This move was probably not the greatest of strategies for Google was right on their heels developing all kinds of great applications.
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