Microsoft Launches Regional Versions of Hotmail
Reuters Microsoft Corp the worlds largest software maker has expanded its flagship Hotmail internet email service to include European and Japanese domain names it said on Friday
Microsoft said people signing up for new email accounts in Britain Germany France Italy and Japan would get a countryspecific email address
If you live in the instead of getting an email address hotmailcom youll be able to get one hotmailcouk Microsoft Vice President Brian Arbogast said in a statement on Microsofts Web Site
Until now all Hotmail addresses have been of the form someonehotmailcom...
Netimperative - Hotmail users given international domains
Microsoft has expanded its Hotmail web email service to include European and Japanese domain names
Users signing up for new email accounts in the Germany France Italy and Japan can now get a countryspecific email address such as couk or cofr
Microsoft vice president Brian Arbogast said Until now all Hotmail addresses have been of the form someonehotmailcom As the largest Internet email service with 187 million users it has become difficult for people to register a Hotmail email name that is both unique and meaningful
will auction the most popular email addresses such as 007hotmailco...
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Microsoft last week introduced a test version of its search engine which will replace Yahoos search technology The company has not said whether it eventually will build its own paid search platform to replace Overture
Search industry analysts predict Microsofts commitment to building a search engine it has spent 100 million already on the effort will naturally lead it to replace Overture with a paid listings system of its own...
MSN Search 'rivals Google': report
Correspondents in Paris
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new search engine has caught up technically with market leader Google the British weekly New Scientist reports in next Saturdays issue
It asked software engineers to test an early version of Microsofts Search service which was released last week
The experts gave Search high marks for quick retrieval of data for the quality of hits the ability to respond to naturallanguage questions and possibility of finetuning the search...
MSN Search beta released
What the software giant unveiled is a more advanced version of technology it introduced in July with more searchable documents and personalisation features The site is accessible at betasearchmsncom
Search Beta has more bells and whistles than previous versions The company however has not yet replaced Yahoo Search technology from powering its engine and it wont do so until sometime in
Microsoft had been widely hyped as being ready to introduce a fully fledged search engine sometime this year...