EasyLink Becomes Microsoft Certified Partner; EasyLink Introduces Fax

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    PISCATAWAY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 14, 2005--EasyLink Services Corporation (NASDAQ: EASY), a leading global provider of services that power the exchange of information between enterprises, their trading communities and their customers, today announced that it has become a Microsoft Certified Partner. This status is related to the recently developed EasyLink Fax Plug-In for Microsoft Outlook that streamlines the submission of messages to the EasyLink Integrated Desktop Messaging Service from Microsoft Outlook software.
    EasyLink Services solution integrates fax and email messaging at the employee desktop, creating significant productivity gains while eliminating the costs and headaches associated with managing a separate fax infrastructure. The Microsoft Partner Program recognizes a company's expertise and delivers valuable tools and resources to help an organization and their customers become successful.
    "Partnering with Microsoft will ensure that the Plug-In is compliant and up-to-date with Microsoft technology," said Pamela Bernardino, Director, Product Management Integrated Desktop Messaging. "The EasyLink Fax Plug-In brings a higher level of e-mail and fax integration to the Microsoft Outlook community."
    EasyLink's Integrated Desktop Messaging Service, including its premium package FaxMail Gold, enables users to send or receive transactions as faxes directly from their desktop workstations. Traditional faxing burdens businesses with a highly inefficient workflow, which involves needlessly printing documents just to fax them and consumes employee time. EasyLink has estimated the total cost of faxing a two-page document domestically exceeds two dollars when all of these costs are taken into account. EasyLink's solutions reduce these costs up to 90 percent.
    FaxMail Gold eliminates the hard Dollar costs of fax machines including their cost of acquisition, maintenance, monthly dedicated telephone line charges, paper, and toner. To send a fax, users simply address an e-mail message, including attachments, addressed to the intended recipient's fax number @faxmail.com. Customers using Microsoft Outlook have the option of installing the EasyLink Fax Plug-In, which then eliminates the need to append @faxmail.com when addressing a message. Receiving faxes is as easy as clicking on an e-mail attachment containing the fax. Each customer receives a personal toll-free or local fax number to which faxes are sent and transformed into an e-mail attachment delivered by EasyLink to the user's e-mail address. For more information or to order FaxMail Gold, call 800-624-5266 or visit www.easylink.com/faxmailgold.

    About EasyLink Services Corporation:

    EasyLink Services Corporation (NASDAQ: EASY), headquartered in Piscataway, New Jersey, is a leading global provider of services that power the exchange of information between enterprises, their trading communities, and their customers. EasyLink's global network handles over 1 million transactions every business day on behalf of over 60 of the Fortune 100 and thousands of other companies worldwide. We facilitate transactions that are integral to the movement of money, materials, products, and people in the global economy, such as insurance claims, trade and travel confirmations, purchase orders, invoices, shipping notices and funds transfers, among many others. EasyLink helps companies become more competitive by providing the most secure, efficient, reliable, and flexible means of conducting business electronically. For more information, please visit www.EasyLink.com.
    This news release may contain statements of a forward-looking nature relating to the future events or the future financial results of EasyLink. Investors are cautioned that such statements are only predictions and that actual events or results may differ materially. In evaluating such statements, investors should specifically consider the various factors which could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those indicated from such forward-looking statements, including the matters set forth in the Company's reports and documents filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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CONTACT: EasyLink Media Contact Keating & Co. Gene King, 973-966-1100 gking@keatingco.com

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