does anyone still use hotmail?

...perhaps i am.

-- strng hlkngtn (hm...) (webmail), July 18th, 2005 6:39 PM. (later) (link)

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Well, yes, but I only use it in circumstances where I'm disinclined to hint at my real name - same as Polyphonic, above. I also still have a Yahoo address, which is used only to keep an eye on current trends in spam. The septic tank industry seems to have finally accepted that critical mass was reached three years ago, when someone in Montana ordered two.

xpost: I now can't rid my mind of the vision of a septic tank reaching critical mass...

Mostly because the student e-mail system we have is shit.

the revamp sucks.

I cc'd myself and ain't receiving emails today...

I used to enjoy using Libble a lot a few years ago. Does anyone still like to use it and have any spare invites? And if you can recommend any downloading sites like libble, that would be ultra helpful. I'm sooo out of the loop these days, it's not even funny.

Thanks, y'all!

last week i sent an e-mail to someone who had a hotmail account. i was surprised hotmail still existed.

Hotmail + Orkut + MSN messenger makes up my Brazilian black book.

hotmail invite plz

i still use hotmail

I've used the same yahoo id for fantasy football for the past six or seven years, and every year, I have to tell it that no, that excite.com address is no longer my primary.

outlook.com launched today, lots of plain-name addresses up for grabs if you care

6 years later, i would end up dating a girl who used hotmail... TRUE STORY

weird timing.

after years of not touching hotmail, today i emptied my account of everything so that i can start to use it again

(mainly cos of live messenger)

oh bah, i just made an 'alias' for firstn✧✧✧.lastn✧✧✧@outl✧✧✧.c✧✧ and realised i really wanted 'rename account'

the obscured email address there says firstname lastname at outlook dot com, oddly enough that is actually my real name and email address

well, alias

(mainly cos of live messenger)

Why?

cos someone i met recently uses it ..

liking the stripped back look and simplicity.

however, they need to bring the calendar into the fold.

its the old format, and doesn't feel right once you sort out email/contacts ..

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i just logged in for the first time in a coon's age and damn if it isn't the fastest and cleanest webmail i've seen since gmail.

i still use hotmail

So do I. The interface change was very recent, in the last couple of weeks. It's a bit tablet-y but it's a big improvement.

I hate change, so I don't like it.

yeah, the new look is good.

if only they would change the calender to fit in with the same look-n-feel then i may start using it again.

i always figured the "no way, you still use hotmail?" meme was just viral marketing on google's part. was a good tool, is a good tool.

it still feels weird to say "hotmail" out loud - definitely a savvy move to make it outlook.com, the better brand

I don't get the love for gmail - it's unintuitive as all crap for doing basic stuff IMO. I have some ancient hotmail accounts that I still use because hundreds of people from years ago that I still want to hear from know those addresses (shoulda made a contact list I know, and i'm too technically inept to figure out how to forward these to a new account, or at least haven't bothered trying).

Anyway, my newer Outlook account avoids the "hotmail" domain name, and I like the new interface, and don't see any obvious reason why it's inferior to gmail. Never found having a hotmail address to be embarrasing or passe. Also, Microsoft doesn't scan my emails to send targeted ads at me or compare my email messages to what i watch on youtube.

you don't see the contextual ads on the right pane? they pretty much all do this now

but it's mostly limited to when i'm logged into outlook.com, and doesn't follow me to google+ and picasa and youtube etc.

anyway i do most of my actual emailing nowadays from iPhone mail clients where which email service i use largely becomes irrelevant, at least in terms of interface

i dig the new look. i dug the old look. hotmail is the mailservice for me.

oh wait. i'm on gmail.

well played

I recently rolled over my Hotmail account to Outlook. I mostly use that address for e-commerce and other purposes where I expect spam.

I'm really getting to like Outlook webmail - I hate on Microsoft alot but they got it right this time. Good integration with cloud storage, excellent integration with even non-MS services, including Gmail; Clean, intuitive interface that, in a rarity for Microsoft, doesn't rearrange everything and have a steep learning curve from the previous version. Easy to set up multiple email addresses that lead to the same actual account, but treat incoming mail completey differently, so you can get your personal, business, and e-commerce/spam magnet emails without having to log into three different accounts. Nothing like hotmail was 5 years ago.

Am I right in thinking they let you connect your iphone to it via exchange, too? A leg up on gmail if so..

how's that? iPhone Mail natively supports Gmail and Hotmail these days

Am I right in thinking they let you connect your iphone to it via exchange, too? A leg up on gmail if so.

Yes! It supports Exchange Active Sync, so you can treat it much like an account on a corporate Exchange server with push updates and such on your iPhone

Thought so! Nhex, gmail stopped offering activesync a couple of months ago so it's (non-push) imap only now.

I've had a hotmail address for like fifteen years but only ever used it as a spamtrap. I see they'll host custom domains (did gmail withdraw this for new accounts too?) - I'm half tempted to buy a cheap domain and make the switch...

(Although I guess the gmail app maybe supports push? I've always stuck with yahoo so I'm a bit fuzzy on this...)

I use gmail, yahoo mail, hotmail, outlook mail, and my work email. :-)

show off ...

(actually so do i .. and feel very dirty cos of it ... )

gmail collects all my personalised domain emails ...
which means its my primary groove ...
but the hotmail is an old old friend and so i have never dumped it completely ...
oh, and yahoo = dead to me.

yahoo: fantasy sports
hotmail: signing up for stuff that may put me on a mailing list
gmail: real email account
outlook: getting my ideal email address before I have to resort to numbers like a savage
work: talking about mad men

dang, i had no idea Gmail push was killed

forgive the noob question : what is/was gmail push ?

little worried this will stop certain functionality that i love re gmail and my domain based emails !?

gmail used to let you connect from an iphone as if it was an exchange server (activesync) - they stopped that quite recently for new devices, so if you get a new phone you'll have to connect to it via imap. Only diff is you'll see new emails when it checks every 10 mins (or whatev) or when you manually refresh, not necessarily as they arrive. It's nicer to have push, but not the end of the word.

Re domains, again it's just stopped for new users. If you've already got one set up, you're sweet. Didn't mean to scaremonger!

ahh ta for the extra detail

.. i am old school gmail user.

not noticed any difference re useage re my personal domain emails ..

bloody good job as that's a deal breaker.

they break that, they break my love.

simple as that.

i'm on an android phone, p sure I get gmails as they arrive. is this going to stop then?

Android being a google thing, I think I read that they implemented their own push notification system. Even if they hadn't, I think android supports imap idle (the extension to imap that allows push - I don't think ios supports it). So I reckon you'll be fine.

(Someone more knowledgable than me on this please correct me if I'm talking pish!)