Outlook . com is a suite of webmail as well as web-based storage of contacts , tasks and calendar services . One of the world ’ s first webmail platforms , Outlook was founded as Hotmail in 1996 and was renamed in 2012 . As of 2015 , Outlook has 400mn active users . Outlook also allows users to make Skype calls , as well as being able to create “ aliases ” in order to have several email addresses for the same account . Outlook is available in 106 languages

and has client apps for both Android

and iOS , which were formerly known as Accompli . These were acquired by Microsoft in December 2014 and rebranded as Outlook Mobile in January 2015 .

28 December 2017