Hotmail merges with Microsoft

He also averred that Hotmail would support the widest variety of browsers from all versions of Navigator to Internet Explorer to set-top-boxes and myriad other devices. Hotmail Corporation, which was started in the US by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith two years ago, is the world8217;s largest e-mail service provider with a subscriber list of 10 million.

The merger, according to Bhatia, quot;would make Hotmail a more content-rich service by augmenting its current base of Web courier and other content providers with Microsoft8217;s own propertiesquot;.