Dear Hotmail: I won't take you seriously until you cut this crap out

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I’m a GMail user. I’ve been a GMail user for years, and I’m not likely to stop using it any time soon. I was, however, excited by all the improvements in Microsoft’s latest update to Hotmail. Competition is good, after all – and a better Hotmail should lead to improvements and innovation in other webmail apps.

When reading about the changes you probably noticed a number of bloggers talking about how Microsoft was taking aim at GMail with the new features – specifically Office Web Apps integration. But there’s one failing which prevents me from considering Hotmail to be a real alternative to GMail. What is it?

Those ridiculous, Incredimail-esque footer advertisements.

If you want me to take Hotmail seriously, Microsoft, stop modifying my email messages that way. It’s one thing to stamp a simple “sent from my iPhone/Blackberry/Hotmail account” tagline, but tacking on a link to a contest entry? I’m not certain it happens on every single message, but I sent half a dozen to myself while doing up this post and they all contained the link in my screencap.

I certainly couldn’t use Hotmail for professional comminquées with those add-ons. “I’m contacting you to conduct business in via email… and by the way, you should totally check out the awesome, free prizes you may already have won!” No thanks.

Much as I sometimes dislike the text ads cluttering up my GMail inbox, they’re a thousand times more tolerable than promotional add-ons to my sent mail items. At least GMail thinks the body of my email message is *mine *and not theirs to modify (however subtly).

Average users might be fine with these insertions, but I have a feeling that more tech-savvy types will find them every bit as bothersome as I do.
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Re: Dear Hotmail: I won’t take you seriously until you cut this crap out

One thing that MS should work on is to have a dedicated domain for hotmail where a person does not have to type [email protected]. That is so irritating. Yahoo & Gmail, you just put userid, not the full email address.

I dont care if its all part of @live.com effort or some other crap, I feel bugged when I need to type my full email address.

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Re: Dear Hotmail: I won’t take you seriously until you cut this crap out

Lazy lazy TLK uncle :emmy:

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Re: Dear Hotmail: I won’t take you seriously until you cut this crap out

aray iss main lazy kee kiya baat hai .. :mad:

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Re: Dear Hotmail: I won’t take you seriously until you cut this crap out

u r lazyyyyyy and dont deny it :@: you dont want to type another 11 letters:cb:

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Re: Dear Hotmail: I won’t take you seriously until you cut this crap out

Its not that. By habit, I hjust type my userid, my pwd and then hit enter .. and then that damn screen comes back asking me to type the whole email address .. so I have to type everything plus extra 11 characters, all over again ..

and what are you, Bill gates kee phuppi, jo itna side le rahi ho MS kaa .. :mad:

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Re: Dear Hotmail: I won’t take you seriously until you cut this crap out

^^ enable Save form data in your browser. it will save the email and will save your time too :chai:

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Re: Dear Hotmail: I won’t take you seriously until you cut this crap out

TLK uncle aik dafa ghalti ke baad bhi baar baar :omg:

I like hotmail ka mail :@: aur yahoo ka messneger aur gmail ka kuch nai:cb: toh side toh longi na :@:

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aahoo to teh rescue :emmy:

show off :barbie:

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tumhain nahi aata to tum jallo.. JAL KUKRI :snooty:

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Re: Dear Hotmail: I won’t take you seriously until you cut this crap out

mai kyon jaloon jal kukra :mocking:

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Re: Dear Hotmail: I won’t take you seriously until you cut this crap out

Actually that’s the reason you can still get a lot more customizable MSN account. :slight_smile:
I think it was because they wanted to cut over to live.com but they couldn’t give up the hotmail and msn TLD’s.

As Aaho suggested (in the midst of his banter), you could do a save address option and so not have to type the whole thing.

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Re: Dear Hotmail: I won’t take you seriously until you cut this crap out

**Although hotmail is still my official address …
but I use gmail for all the personal emails ..

Infact .. i m even thinking about setup hotmail pop account in gmail
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