 In January 2008 Easynet Connect was launched as a SME ISP by UK Online and Easynet.In spring 2008 "UK Online" announced it would shortly be launching a number of competitive new services, including domain registration, Microsoft Hosted Exchange email and commercial web hosting on Windows and Linux.The development of the planned services was cancelled and all mention of them, including the pre-registration page, quietly dropped from the website in May/June 2008.