Comments on: Microsoft Hotmail, you suck!

By: krishna

krishna — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:08:09 +0000

hotmail sucks, yes, today all my mails, i dont even have backup, mails from 1997 are all deleted.
i will never make this mistake never let anyone do that too.

By: diego

diego — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:38:42 +0000

yeah am not a big fan of hotmail to but u know most of my relatives uses that peace of junk >:)

By: Jim Wagner

Jim Wagner — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:37:25 +0000

just got a gmail account.
if micorsoft buys yahoo, I’m gone.
I’m using pclinux os now, not bad, I’m mad

By: Joe Public

Joe Public — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:12:17 +0000

Dears,

Dissatisfied users have been joining forces for many years already to provide all sorts of alternatives to M$’s software… it’s called Open Source, and everyone is allowed to play - for FREE! So first, get Gmail and stop sweating the e-mail problem. Then, download PCLinuxOS or Linux Mint, install it on your PC and say goodbye to M$ and their illegal market-hogging forever!

By: desa

desa — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:40:13 +0000

I am also very furious right now. few days ago, hotmail wasnt opening properly and when i checked in my inbox. everything! as in everything is gone! and i dont know where the heck it is. and i dont have any idea who to contact.. there were a lot of important mails! d*mn!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:03:04 +0000

I think they they all suck, but hotmail is the worst. For some reason, I couldn’t get on this morning. Thank goddess, I have gmail and yahoo. They aren’t much better, but what can you do? Perhaps dissatisfied users can start their own company. The corporates have had it their substandard way too long

By: Annoyed with all email services

Annoyed with all email services — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 04:19:12 +0000

i had an account with hotmail and i sort of thought it would last forever, but obviously it didnt which really annoyed me, so when i went to check it a year later (why a year? i had to move and didnt have computer access for a long while) my account had been removed.. i used to have Yahoo before hotmail which lasted forever but i stopped using it because i couldnt send or recieve any mail, which is supposed to be the whole point of an email service…

By: Sander

Sander — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:35:18 +0000

Thanks for pointing out that MS Hotmail sucks:
I have a ban for no obvious reason.

I am a tutor at an Academy for Arts and Design and all at a sudden I can’t send mail to my students with a Hotmail address.

Very inconvenient, and as a Mac-user I have ever more reason to hate Microsoft.

This was just to blow off steam, thanx…

By: Cherry

Cherry — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 02:22:55 +0000

Hotmail didn’t suck for me !! BUT now that Windows Live Hotmail is in place I may end up cancelling the hotmail account I pay for because now I can’t tend to my email with friggin Windows Live coming into play. They just couldn’t leave a good thing alone !!!

By: Why, Oh Why.

Why, Oh Why. — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:32:01 +0000

All my precious and intimate emails, all gone… after years of use.

Hotmail, worst free email, ever.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:13:36 +0000

THE WORST PEACE OF JUNK I EVER USED!!!

By: devastated

devastated — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:20:08 +0000

Dear word, i cant believe they did this to me…to all of us. i actually dont even know what to say but i have had my account for about 6 years and i had my laptop stolen, so when i finally was able to buy a new one, i log on, and poof like magic everything gone.
i left all my most precious, intimate and important emails in my account, its really not fair.

i now have a yahoo account. but in all honesty nothing will give back what they took. i dont even understand why ppl use hotmail.

FUCK YOU MICROSOFT!

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:46:31 +0000

I log on everyday and after 15 years of service they deleted all my files with no warning.

Thanks Bill

By: tom

tom — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 07:44:02 +0000

mental note - never use ANY web based email service - although my alternative is a MS product!!! ARSE. Microsoft exchange is a must - all emails downloaded and stored, no issues, this latest incident has just proved we mean nothing to MS, its just the adverts and sponsors that they are interested in. Enjoy

By: DTA

DTA — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 18:03:05 +0000

On occassions I login into my Hotmail account, and one day I did check into and found the whole account converted to Live and also saw no sign of my old messages, important stuff. All that’s left are my contacts once had on MSN Messenger.

This might be the worst yet migration I ever experienced.

By: Colby

Colby — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:38:24 +0000

Yes, you are right. A number of posters have lost everything despite signing in several times in a month, and this sucks. I stand corrected.
I say no more.

By: Leanne

Leanne — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 22:45:53 +0000

Colby,
You are missing my point. I did sign in within 30 days. I used hotmail regularly as did many other users and still found everything for the past 6 years deleted.

By: Colby

Colby — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 14:31:16 +0000

Leanne, I realize that I must be missing some very fundamental point here. When you sign up for the service you read the part that states that information will be deleted after a 30 day period of inactivity. At least I read that. Knowing this doesn’t make it any nicer or easier to cope with when you loose lots of valuable and personal information. That part I do get. I also read the blog carefully. In fact now I have read through it twice in an attempt to fish out what I seem to be missing. I think the difference in our understanding of the problem is very subjective. Perhaps if all of my information had been deleted I would feel differently than I do now. I don’t like the 30 day deal. I don’t think that it is a very reasonable condition. But I don’t think that finding a condition unreasonable is solid ground for placing blame for the consequences of not meeting up to the condition at the door of the people who set the condition.

By: Leanne

Leanne — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 21:40:36 +0000

In response to Colby……..I don’t know what you have been reading BUT if you look and read carefully MOST of us DID follow the guidelines set out by microsoft. That is what we are complaining about. Yes people are complaining about the guidlelines but if it were simply users not following the guidlines, then we wouldn’t have a leg to stand on.
Surely you can see that MOST of us did log on regularly and have had years of emails deleted.

By: Colby

Colby — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 20:11:51 +0000

Hmmm…I’m sure I’m going to be the ass on this board, but, though I have an occasional problem losing emails while in the process of writing them, I have had nothing but fair experience using Hotmail. I’m not a great fan of MS and it was really only by chance that I signed onto Hotmail back in the 90’s. Despite a few irritating glitches (my ’save draft’ option actually always used to delete my drafts, and nothing would stay in my draft folder…so i always saved to Word…now with the newest version the ’save draft’ option functions, for example)I have experienced nothing but a perfectly usable free mail. I was a little disappointed by the recent change in the pages appearance until I realized that it functioned better than before.
I just wanted to say that Hotmail is a service offered. It comes with conditions like every other offered service in the world. Since there are other options available, it your responsibility if you use their service. If their conditions don’t suit you you choose a different service. Otherwise its kind of like being on a low sodium diet, buying a pack of salted peanuts, wolfing them without bothering with the ingredients list, then throwing a fit when your blood-pressure skyrockets because you think all peanuts should be packaged without salt.