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How Hotmail changed Microsoft (and email) forever
- em3rgent0rdr 9y agoI use my hotmail for all my non-business communication (i.e. whenever I have to give my email out as a consumer). The spam detection and focused inbox work great for that.
- em3rgent0rdr 9y ago"Hotmail used Secure HTTP (HTTPS) with SSL encryption to protect users' login credentials, and Microsoft forced customers to use more complex passwords—but the rest of the service ran over unencrypted HTTP. "Just the authentication piece required us to run hardware accelerators at the time" :O