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Hotmail sucks ass too!
Refalm:
--- Quote from: Brandon Paddock ---I've always been very happy with my MSN/Hotmail accounts. Granted, I never had to pay for MSN Premium (until next month anyway)... and I do prefer my company's Exchange e-mail server... But I still use my MSN e-mail now and then and for years it has never let me down. The "Outlook Live" subscription is actually well worth the fee. It's basically an Exchange account for the average user. It integrates seamlessly with Outlook 2003 and syncs your mail, calendar, and contacts - and its accessible from any internet connection. Very good stuff.
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You're certainly joking... I moved from Hotmail to Yahoo! Mail when I was 15, because I was so sick and tired of their bullshit ads and inferior webmail system.
Brandon Paddock:
--- Quote from: Refalm ---You're certainly joking... I moved from Hotmail to Yahoo! Mail when I was 15, because I was so sick and tired of their bullshit ads and inferior webmail system.
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What's inferior about it? I get 2GB of storage on my MSN account, and 250MB on my older hotmail account that I still use from time to time.
Both (the free and non-free) get very effective spam filtering and virus scanning. Hotmail is one of the only free webmail provider that never sold users' e-mail addresses to marketers (as opposed to AOL, Yahoo), and has exemplary service. I've never experienced a service outage with Hotmail, and I've never once had a problem receiving messages immediately - a frequent problem for friends that use Yahoo (at least in the past).
Certainly all of the major webmail providers have improved a lot in the last year. You say Yahoo has served you well, and I know many who are very happy with Gmail. But I see no reason to rag on Hotmail.
Refalm:
--- Quote from: Brandon Paddock ---What's inferior about it? I get 2GB of storage on my MSN account, and 250MB on my older hotmail account that I still use from time to time.
Both (the free and non-free) get very effective spam filtering and virus scanning. Hotmail is one of the only free webmail provider that never sold users' e-mail addresses to marketers (as opposed to AOL, Yahoo), and has exemplary service. I've never experienced a service outage with Hotmail, and I've never once had a problem receiving messages immediately - a frequent problem for friends that use Yahoo (at least in the past).
Certainly all of the major webmail providers have improved a lot in the last year. You say Yahoo has served you well, and I know many who are very happy with Gmail. But I see no reason to rag on Hotmail.
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Well, the whole system seemed very chaotic. Remember that I left 4 years ago, Hotmail has improved some now (TrendMicro virus scanning, better spam filtering, etc.).
But Yahoo! Mail and Gmail are still better (although Gmail doesn't have HTML e-mail creating and virus scanning). The interfaces are easier to use, and contain less bloat.
Just my opinion.
Brandon Paddock:
Well, at least Hotmail only has text ads, unlike some of their competitors. Indeed we have Google to thank for that revelation.
Still, my favorite thing about Hotmail remains the MSN Calendar + Outlook integration options. Obviously they're not for everyone. But it does come very close to giving you all the functionality of a hosted Exchange server, at a far, fary lower cost.
Refalm:
--- Quote from: Brandon Paddock ---Well, at least Hotmail only has text ads, unlike some of their competitors. Indeed we have Google to thank for that revelation.
Still, my favorite thing about Hotmail remains the MSN Calendar + Outlook integration options. Obviously they're not for everyone. But it does come very close to giving you all the functionality of a hosted Exchange server, at a far, fary lower cost.
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Well, I haven't used Hotmail in two years now.
Btw, does Microsoft Exchange still only work with Outlook (Express)?
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