Microsoft admits: we still haven't fixed Hotmail

[ravi_9793]

Originally Posted by MetalheadGautham

I said everything that concerns me. I stated the reasons why I don't use hotmail and use gmail. your choice and your needs, along with your likings may vary. So there is no use contradicting my statements.


I told you, your needs are different from mine. I am not a windows oriented guy. I am a web cum linux oriented guy.

Ok... your personal opinion.
I am saying all these because I think you are missing some great live features. I will request you to sign up a test live Id, and see how many spams you get.

Just avoid posting your Id in useless forms.

recently (may be 2 months old) I created a @live.in ID..and yet I have not received any spam.

[MetalheadGautham]

Originally Posted by ravi_9793

Ok... your personal opinion.
I am saying all these because I think you are missing some great live features. I will request you to sign up a test live Id, and see how many spams you get.

Just avoid posting your Id in useless forms.

recently I created a @live.in ID..and yet I have not received any spam.

could you name those features ?

[ravi_9793]

Originally Posted by MetalheadGautham

could you name those features ?

All the 15 points you have made.
Try it, you will see all 15 points are pointless

[infra_red_dude]

Originally Posted by MetalheadGautham

1. hotmail is too cluttered

Agree.

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2. hotmail does not give high enough storage space

Never bothered. I like to keep my inbox well organised and clean.

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3. hotmail does not have the extra features I require

Like? Care to list a few?

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4. hotmail is heavy and hard to use compared to gmail

Spot on! The biggest drawback of hotmail (being heavy).

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5. hotmail is from micro$oft

So?

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6. hotmail is too windows oriented

Like?

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7. hotmail gives 10 marriage proposals each day

8. hotmail gives 20 loan ads each day

9. hotmail attracts too much spam

Nada.. for me, Hotmail's spam filter works very well.

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10. hotmail marks proper messages as spam

True, haf faced this most in Hotmail among others.

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11. hotmail is strange as I get tonnes of pirated windows buy offer

Huh????!!

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12. hotmail is no longer the property of sameer bhatia

And how does that influence in the liking of your hotmail?

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13. hotmail is not intergrated into google's services

Are you for real??!!

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14. hotmail runs on a windows based server

As long as it doesn't crash or downtimes/security problems this hardly matters.

Originally Posted by MetalheadGautham

15. hotmail is not hot

True. IMHO what you need is MallikaMail

For me except speed, for everything else Hotmail = GMail for all the features I use. Hotmail is just too heavy. Thats the only complaint against hotmail. Oh yea, one more: No free pop/imap support. That sux! Spam filter is better than Yahoo's equal to GMail but many times wrongly marks proper mails as spam. My first ID way back when hotmail was released to public was with this service.

I'm a strict hater of the web 2.0 interface in mail services. So whenever I'm not on my laptop (away from mail client) what do I do? I disable ajax UI of yahoo, I disable chat service in gmail and use the standard version of Hotmail. I'm still a happy user

[MetalheadGautham]

Originally Posted by ravi_9793

All the 15 points you have made.
Try it, you will see all 15 points are pointless

its too late to give windows mail a third chance now, when I am already comfortable with GMail.
the very fact that it runs on a Windows Server makes it more vulnerable to viruses.
but please do tell me what are the stuff I can expect seeing in hotmail since I ditched it in 2006.

[iMav]

Originally Posted by infra_red_dude

For me except speed, for everything else Hotmail = GMail for all the features I use. Hotmail is just too heavy. Thats the only complaint against hotmail. Oh yea, one more: No free pop/imap support. That sux! Spam filter is better than Yahoo's equal to GMail but many times wrongly marks proper mails as spam. My first ID way back when hotmail was released to public was with this service.

+1, i dont know but for some reason i dont like the concept of pop for online based emails

[infra_red_dude]

^^^ Same here. I'm all for imap. But hotmail doesn' provide both! (ok, plz don't say OE here!)