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Re: Face Off: Windows Live Hotmail vs. Gmail

Gmail — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:37:23 -0000

Gmail wins everyday, i'm tired of hotmail and msn related services, everytime there is an update, i know things are going to change, usually stuff i used gets removed or out of place, it just seems heavier, nonsensical and mandatory, i HATE IT!

Re: Face Off: Windows Live Hotmail vs. Gmail

Desarae A. Veit AKA DesaraeV — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:23:28 -0000

I've had both for years (hotmail and gmail), along with web mail for schools, yahoo, and random work emails. I still prefer gmail above all the rest. They are so innovative, and convenient. Plus you can't beat a free service with unlimited storage. Which is something hotmail doesnt have. I can archive everything and never delete mail again. I do appreciate the long comparison post though. Thanks, for posting.

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elcid67 — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:41:37 -0000

Hotmail is horrible.

You can't sort through messages by read/unread... you can't even find your unread messages..

It doesn't have IMAP

You can't forward emails to mailboxes outside Microsoft domains (which basically means you can't escape Microsludge)

Its search is inferior

I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT.

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damu — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:16:11 -0000

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Abelardo — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:43:43 -0000

Hi, good analysis, though I think you forgot one of the most important things, and this is EMAIL CLIENTs, Live Hotmail only accepts Outlook Express but they do not have IMAP client, instead Gmail offers POP3 and IMAP access, with that point Gmail completely defeats the crap called Live Hotmail.

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mohamad — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 06:31:05 -0000

how are oyou

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Diego — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 22:31:21 -0000

Great article.
Very good comments.
Sometimes when I clean up my inbox I search for all emails with some text in it. After that I try to "select all" messages and move them to a certain folder (or tag them).
If the search returns more than a certain number of messages they are fitted in pages (I couldn't find how to change the "number" in hotmail).
When I "select all" messages, Gmail smartly adds a button to select not only the messages being displayed but actually "all". It's simple and saves MANY clicks, one for every page for that search.
Gmail was not thought as a business, rather, it was designed to solve a problem and they go a long way to keep it up to date with users needs.

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david — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 02:34:05 -0000

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Boo boo — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 08:10:09 -0000

Hate windows live. server is always busy.

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Hilari — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:02:35 -0000

I can't stand the new Live hotmail. Several times all I want to do is just delete an email...I can't even INTERACT with the page until the stupid advertisement at the top is finished loading!!! It takes a good 5-10 seconds on a FIOS connection to do that also! Sheesh!

Re: Face Off: Windows Live Hotmail vs. Gmail

Lindsey — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:36:48 -0000

Me too! I ABSOLUTELY HATE THIS, and I've been trying to figure out how to go back to the old one... do you know how???

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annie — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:24:55 -0000

WHAT THE HELL, I WANT MY OLD HOTMAIL. WHY DO THEY ALWAYS SCREW WITH A GOOD THING. I THINK I'LL MOVE EVERYTHING TO YAHOO. I HATE THIS WINDOWS LIVE....................................

Re: Face Off: Windows Live Hotmail vs. Gmail

Norway — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 22:15:20 -0000

I can't say how much I agree with you! It's almost unbelievable that it wasn't mentioned! That is the main reason not to use hotmail, and why i've gotten myself a gmail account.

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robert — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:15:36 -0000

this just happened to me. i had taken a mental vacation from the internet so to speak. when i signed in to my hotmail account last week everything was gone. all current inbox and junk mail and ALL MY FOLDERS with a lot of really personal correspondence from the last several years. all gone in a heartbeat. i can't tell you how sick i was. i gave customer service an earfull of course..........they said they were sorry. of course my other hotmail plus account, the one i pay $19 for for additional storage space was all still there. i've never wanted to sue anyone before now. i hold the people who make these policies in contempt primarily because i don't feel they make it clear to their subscribers that this kind of deletion of data will take place after only 30 days. i never imagined this would happen. the reason i didn't back these folders up was that i thought they were safe.

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Joel — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:02:12 -0000

What is with all you jokers who say gigs and gigs is too much space? Unbelievableâ€¦ since when is getting more for free too much? Are you guys thinking of the long term? I am at 1.2 gigs right now (since January 2005) and at that rate I will eventually come to a point where I will have to delete items â€“ thus even nullifying Gmailâ€™s tagline of â€œOver x0000 megabytes (and counting) of free storage so you'll never need to delete another message.â€
Its been nice to have every email available for me for the last couple years, it has come in handy and Iâ€™m sure Iâ€™m not the only one who will be a little dissapointed when I hits the limit.

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Me — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 05:00:31 -0000

Skype is the best for long distance comunications

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Re: Face Off: Windows Live Hotmail vs. Gmail

Andrew — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 20:51:49 -0000

The only reason in my opinion on why Live Hotmail loads slower then Gmail is because it has things such as the reading pane which I believe Gmail doesn't have. Live Hotmail also looks a lot better then Gmail in my opinion. It's hard to say it depends on what you used first. The person who wrote this stated that he already preferred Gmail, so already you would think that Gmail would be "the winner". Well in the end it was a good read.

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Re: Face Off: Windows Live Hotmail vs. Gmail

Mario — Thu, 17 May 2007 19:39:34 -0000

Your article did not mention gmail's privacy policy (or lack of) where the content of your e-mails is used for contextual advertising.

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Emma Rollan — Thu, 17 May 2007 16:32:11 -0000

hi how are u

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What is Gmail? — Thu, 17 May 2007 11:25:46 -0000

Do both mail programs work in all browsers? I have had problems with Gmail in Konqueror, and had to change the UA to get it to work. How is Live in this regard?

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Motorcycle Guy — Mon, 14 May 2007 21:49:56 -0000

I love the threaded view of gmail. Probably the best feature in my opinion.

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Chris! — Mon, 14 May 2007 12:10:48 -0000

Well for the RSS bit ... Google now has 'Google Reader' that comes with the email address. So would that make it better?