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• Is there any books about Hotmail???
  I have questions about things and all of the forums suck and I can get a number or anything to talk to Microsoft. Even if its free, there should still be a place to get answers for questions!!

  I can't get it to sign me out, and it won't tell me why!
  Clearing Cashe's and cookees does nothing! I have had it for 20 years!

• I have been using Gmail since its launch in 2004. @ that time, Hotmail provided 250 MB of disk space. I remember when Hotmail had 2 MB of space, and then 10MB and then 250MB.

  The google staff always add some “tools” to make your emailing more efficient and that’s what I like about gmail, and google in general.

  I wouldn’t insult you or contradict you, but I had to pay a small amount of money (around 20 usd i guess) to create my gmail account several days after the official launch @ April 1st 2004. The only way to subscribe to gmail @ that time was by sending so called “invitations” from subscribed gmail users. Gmail is widely open for everyone for free.

  The reason why Hotmail is crap is because MS offers less flexibility. For example, do you really think that MS will add IMAP support for Hotmail ?? I don’t think so. Instead, those guys are,afaik, currently providing the 15-year-old POP3 access. Also, Hotmail have lots of ads and the "unblockable" Windows Live spam that really irritates me.

  Gmail is now set up w/ Google Apps. It means that I use Gmail to provide the mail for my domain....and still the same features.

  Also, there's the aspect of MSN. Do you wanna go to Windows Live Messenger?? Yeah, use a hotmail/live address!! There are a few people who use their OWN address for Live Accounts (like lolcake@mydomain.com). Most of people don't know how to do that trick and thats why they're trapped into the Hotmail paradigm.

  Thanks for reading

• Hi Ron,
  Thank you for your post (which is getting old by the way ;-)
  I just compiled a list of reasons about why not to use hotmail. Check it out!

  10 reasons why not to use Hotmail

• Rob, THANK YOU. You are asking the same question I've been asking myself. Why in God's name do I have to keep signing into hotmail so they won't delete my emails? And why do I have to enter @hotmail.com? What a bunch of jackasses. Hotmail deleted all of my sent emails at some point 5 or 6 years ago, then older messages in my inbox. Messages I would like to have now. Messages I can never have back. Lovely emails from my wife when I first met her. And emails before that go all the way back to high school (which is starting to be a long time ago now). I created a folder within my hotmail account called "Fuck Hotmail" and put everything in there, so that at least I had messages saved somewhere. That folder is also a nice reminder of why I moved to gmail.

• I've long since abandoned Hotmail for Gmail, but I still need to check the account. Can anyone tell me why, every week or so, I have to re-enter my address and password? And why I have to enter my entire email address even though I'm logging into Hotmail? Why should I have to enter @hotmail.com? Doesn't it know I'm at Hotmail? I guess one can't exepect much from Microsoft.

• Ron, you are quite right hotmail does suck, for the reason you already stated. If you don't log in for 30 days then good night Vienna. I work abroad sometimes and i had a hotmail account, because i had no acess to a computer or the internet, i lost my account and all the contacts i had inside it. So i think hotmail sucks, i have had a yahoo address for 5 years now and i still have it and my contacts. My yahoo account does'nt get bombarded with spam either. I think you are justified......Andy

• My hotmail account was hacked into. For the last hour, while hotmail's crack team of employees aren't resetting my password, my friends have been conversing with the scum who have sent everyone in my address book an email about what a lucrative opportunity I have found in England while attending a youth program... I'm 32

  And I'm a paying customer. I have only the small satisfaction of having been able to cancel my subscription in the meantime.

• Yes, I did get here by typing "Hotmail sucks"!
  I just wrote an article myself about their services and i'm not even using Hotmail, but i still have reasons to hate them and millions of others are in the same boat with me. Hotmail is blocking emails I sent from normal account to my friends! So, please, everybody just stop using hotmail services!

• It's really simple. When you watch broadcast television, you're the product. The advertisers who pay for the programming and the broadcast are the customer. When you go to the movies or Tivo programs from cable and skip the ads, you're the customer. It costs money to make TV content and someone has to pay.

  It costs real money to run email. I'd be amazed if Yahoo spends less than a dollar a month per yahoo.com email address. It takes real engineering talent and an ever growing physical infrastructure to keep out even as much spam as they do. Better spam control costs even more. Someone is paying. When you use "free" email from a for-profit corporation, YOU'RE THE PRODUCT. The company doesn't owe you any
  thing. And you don't even know who's buying. They can take your account away any time for any reason. They can be down for a long time. You cannot contact them for help. (Ever tried? Yahoo Mail has NO customer service, as a matter of company policy.) They can mine your messages and sell the results. They can censor your mail, in and out, and they don't even have to tell you. They can sell your account. Yahoo is about to sell your email account to Microsoft.

  Which is all very fine if you are a chatty teenager and email is just another entertainment service. But if you are a professional trying to do real work, "free" email just isn't an appropriate tool. If you were an auto mechanic, would you buy your tools at Toys R Us? Grow up and get professional quality email service. I already suggested several vendors.

• If this does not get published it is because I did not read your comment policy... :-) [Editor's Note: true, it's a bit off topic, but I'll approve it. :D ] I've had a hotmail account for well for ever. AND I absolutely love it.... nope I have no saved emails on there because they at some point deleted them all. I had a few passwords on there as well as product codes for stuff I purchased (like ace utitilites) so I could re-access them as needed... well they're gone to. Luckily some business's (like ace utilities) resent them to me at my current email addy. In fact hotmail (and maybe vista) made me take a very hard look at micro$oft in general and I decided to look at alternatives. I found the greatest (imho) program in Linux it is called Ubuntu. Totally free and open sourced with any program easily replaced that micro$oft can offer. Not only does this software meet my expectations it often exceeds them (micro$oft has a very low standard). Programs that I refer to are firefox instead of IE, openoffice instead of micro$oft office, vlc instead of medial player, and the list is endless. The only thing that really sucks with Linux (Ubuntu) is that I (using comcast) have no need for a virus checker, and it's free. I really miss the pop ups (sic) I also miss the blue screen of death and the restart computer on every update. Being serious I really do miss having to pirate software (although I have bought my fair share). For those of you who really bitch on hotmail..... look at the parent company, is the philosophy any different? I had a funny incident yesterday, I found in a garbage pick a full working computer (hp e-pc 42) with a printer. The printer was a hp and only had a parallel port connection (nice printer though) I plugged it into my Ubuntu machine and it recognized it!!!!!! when was the last time you plugged ANY parallel port printer into micro$oft and it was recognized without preloading drivers.

  I realize I have gone off topic (sortof) but people have to realize that hotmail is merely one aspect of micro$oft that WE (not me) put up with and it is time we said enough is enough. Let's look at one of the richest men in the world.... Michael Dell (yea dell puters), he was interviewed last year and in one of the photo's was a pic of his own laptop.... was he using micro$oft.... wrong.. he was using Ubuntu (google it). Why I as is one of the richest men in the world, not to mention a computer guru using Linux? furthermore why does he offer a linux based system on the computers he sells? So for all you whiners, quit whinning and do something about it... google Ubuntu (current version hardy heron) and make a move to YOU controlling the content of your computer! Any questions I freely offer my email rlvarcoe@comcast.net.

  Cheers

  Rob