said by Mele20:Yes, I know email is very old and goes back before Windows. I just thought XP would have been a good time for Microsoft to have introduced better privacy measures for OE because it was with XP that home computer use exploded.
They were already ending development of MS Outlook Express by then. They were getting Windows Mail ready for Windows Vista. And, ultimately, starting their move to Windows Live Essentials, which is their counterpoint to Yahoo! services.
I remember compuserv! And I fondly remember prodigy but I didn't know it was still around!
Prodigy only exists as a vestige of the original. I am not certain of the timing, but somewhere along the line Prodigy was bought by SBC, either directly, or through acquisition of "The Pacific Telesis Group" (parent of Pacific Bell Telephone, which I believe became associated with Prodigy somehow).
All of those domains I listed currently belong to AT&T. They came to AT&T as the result of a series of mergers and acquisitions engineered by SBC. Prodigy ceased to exist as a company you could sign up Internet service with shortly after SBC bought The Pacific Telesis Group.