Comments on: Microsoft Live Mail, you suck too!!!

By: Bern

Bern — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 14:02:30 +0000

I miss my old Hotmail.
Anybody know how to make Windows Live Mails turn off and back to old Hotmails?
I don’t like it coz I must have IE 6 or Firefox. I’m Operas user.
Please help me… reply to my mail abal_abal@hotmail.com if you don’t mind..
Thankz

By: Conor O'Neill

Conor O'Neill — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 10:38:08 +0000

Why the hell can’t they equate Passport_Login to Hotmail_Login, surely that was the point of Passport? I am logged into various MS services most days and yet they have deleted my Hotmail account on multiple occasions.

As for POP - I’d have no issue with them embedding ads in the bottom of each retrieved mail. But what I do not understand is why none of the webmail vendors have embraced IMAP. Seems a much more logical way of keeping all the data in their silos and just giving a view of it in one’s mail tool.

Yahoo is nice but the performance is pretty awful compared to GMAIL. Must be all those useless banner ads that fewer and fewer people are clicking on.

By: justin

justin — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 22:53:38 +0000

I use Gmail most of the time, but use Hotmail for “business” use, and have extra email accounts with Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo and Fastmail for various interests …. it sounds a lot, but I use them all (as well as a few Flickr accounts).
Yes, I agree with you, it is a pain in the arse having to log on every 30 days with certain sites … I’ve put all the info about addresses and passords onto a spreadsheet, to help me remember them all.
Hotmail will allow you to export all your email addresses at one go (a little video on Googlemail showed me how to do it - very useful).

By: dahamsta

dahamsta — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 21:19:03 +0000

I’ve been using Gmail for specific stuff for ages and I’ve been delighted with it, but imho the new Yahoo Mail has set the bar again. It’s just the berries, I actually enjoy using it. Plus it has a cute factor, see this horrendously overstated post:

http://verbo.se/notablog/space-heaters-make-great-house-warming-gifts/

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 19:40:58 +0000

Steve,

Gmail and Yahoo! Mail are free services too and yet they see fit to provide POP access allowing you to bypass their ads. They are not charities either, yet somehow they get by doing this.

Most non-computer nerds will be even more delighted with Gmail and Yahoo! Mail - and not just for the POP - their UI’s are waaaaaaay better than Live Mail’s.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 19:27:21 +0000

Tom,

1. It’s a free service, give it a break.
2. Allowing pop access means your by pass their banner adverts. They’re not a charity.
3. Most normal* people will be delighted with the service. (*Non-computer nerds.)

By: Don Speekingleesh

Don Speekingleesh — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 18:15:48 +0000

POP is still suppported on older accounts (account.live.com tells you when you signed up, but I don’t know the cut off date), but you have to use a program called Hotmail Popper (find the last free version). I can’t remember the last time I looked at the Live interface.