Bah to G-mail!

NON-BELIEVER!

Hey ya know I've had an account with them before they were bought my microsoft. Almost 15 years with the same address.

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Gmail bad! >_>
Doesn't it spy on your mail or something icky like that?

The government is stealing your secrets!

I use Yahoo! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

So does my mom. I guess that excuses you. THIS TIME.

Yay Gmail !

Alright time to ask. What is Gmail other then just another e-mail account. How is it better then others, how is it worse? and Why is murkshadow recruiting.. your from and evil organization aren't you! You want to control our minds to do all the sick and perverted things for you!

It's generally better than hotmail. Faster loading times, more storage, faster delivery, better spam filter and next to no advertisement. You know you want it! JOIN US! Brains~

hotmail is king but ill also ask and say what Gragor is asking above..:P

The easiest way to find out is just to try, really. Let me know your e-mail adress and I'll send you an invite.

hmmm you play a valid argument :D very well ill try ill send my email through a note ^^

THe only reason I have a Hotmail is cause it lets me use MSN messenger Other than that I use Yahoo and my schools e-mail system

You can use MSN with gmail as well! I've been using my gmail for my login for ages.

true but ive already got all my friends on hotmail o.o

Yahoo here! yay!

w00t, gmail!

gmail's invite only again?

I have no idea. It was when I got my account. :)

may as well since my yahoo account is getting too much spam and I already have close to 500 (the limit) of blocked addresses >w>

I have yahoo, hotmail (Windows Live Mail), and gmail. So far I like yahoo and hotmail best. gmail just seems under developed in comparison

what's the difference between Gmail and Hotmail?

Quality. I used Hotmail but went over to Gmail and haven't regret it ever since. It loads much faster, haven't got any annoying advertisement and the spam filter works much better. It also has an enormous storage, 6488 MB.

oooo im ganna do Gmail too, cause my hotmail takes too long to load lol youve converted me

I'm exclusive to Hotmail here. Been using it for 8 years now and haven't have too many problems. Sticking with it. :P

That's usually how I am - if it works for me then there's no need to upgrade. But a friend sent me a Gmail invite and I tried it and realized what an annoying e-mail Hotmail really is. It's just popular, not effective. :P

Well for me, as long as it allows me to type e-mails and the person to whom I sent recieved it, I can't really complain. So as long as Hotmail will be up and not changing anything to that, I don't see the point in going through the trouble of switching to Gmail.

I use Gmail and Yahoo, i just found hotmail to be primitive, slow and spammy - plus i would prefer to entrust my emails to Google than to Microsoft.

This is an article written by David DeJean in regard to Hotmail vs Gmail:Microsoft: save $44 billion, just make Hotmail free
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I took a look at MSN – oops, Windows Live -- yesterday, something I try to do every year or so (which puts me ahead of most people, apparently). What I saw reminded me why spending $44 billion on Yahoo! isn't going to make Microsoft competitive with Google.

I love Google's Gmail. It's free, and it lets me do all kinds of fancy things. I especially like the ability to collect mail from other POP3 accounts in Gmail, where I can see threaded discussions, search and categorize messages, and get to it from anywhere I can use a Web browser. (And Gmail is just one of the Google Web services I use regularly. I like the calendar, and the Picasa photo gallery, and the RSS reader particularly.)

I used to have a Hotmail account, back before Microsoft bought it a decade ago. It was a dazzling innovation: free, permanent e-mail. Then Microsoft bought it and I had a choice: I could have free, or I could have permanent. I quit using it.

Yesterday I signed up for Hotmail again. Going in, I was offered a chance to sign up for Windows Live instead. All I had to do was ". . . Click 'Install' to get this free software . . . ."

Whoa. Install software? No thank you very much. Why should I have to do that to use things that should be Web-based services, like a calendar and photo gallery? (And install a toolbar? Read my lips: Nononononono. In my opinion toolbars aren't merely visual junk, they're spyware. All of them. I don't care where they come from.)

I elected to just sign up for a free Hotmail account. What I discovered was that Gmail does for free things I could get from Hotmail only if I took a paid subscription – like collecting mail from POP3 accounts.

There are other annoyances. For instance, when I want my email and sign into Gmail I see my inbox. When I sign into Hotmail I see a landing page filled with the latest news from celebrity rehab and ads for things I have tried most of my adult life to avoid.

The point here is that Google provides the maximum service to its users with the minimum of intrusive monetization of the relationship. Microsoft provides the minimum of service with the maximum of intrusive monetization. Which one would any rational person choose?

Closely related point: Yahoo! is in the same mode as Microsoft --- min service, max monetization. I get no free POP3 support and annoying landing pages from Yahoo! Mail, too. (At least I can set my new Hotmail account to skip the landing page sometimes – something I haven't figured out how to do in Yahoo! Mail.)

So, question: Which does Microsoft want more – does it just want to make the kind of big bucks online that Google is making, or does it really want to compete with Google?

The software giant's behavior to date, from screwing up Hotmail to buying up Yahoo!, indicates that it doesn't understand that it cannot do the former (make the kind of big money Google makes on the Internet) without doing the latter (providing services of real value to users). It can't charge for admission when the free show down the block is better. It can't win from the top down, by buying existing customers. It can only win from the bottom up, by innovating new services that win new customers. And it could start by making Hotmail – all of Hotmail – competitive with Google by making it free.Source: http://blogs.computerworld.com/free_hotmail

I actually LOVE G-Mail.. its a great E-Mail utility.. So what if they spy on your E-Mails!? Just make sure you don't have pages of porn in your G-Mail account and you'll be fine LOL!

Hotmail is the shittiest thing to happen to the Internet..mind you.. I might be saying that because I hate Microsoft VERY much.

I like gmail to an extent, I still prefer simplicity of Yahoo. Hotmail just really stink overall next to those two though.