I have a myriad of different email accounts from various providers, most of them free. Now I have firmly decided that MSN Hotmail is the worst of the lot. Not only is the layout awful and mindbogglingly unintuitive but it now actually fails to send emails! Now, is it just me or is the main purpose of an email account to send email??? What makes this even worse is that Microsoft has continually denied that there is a problem, even though thousands of people have told them.

I presumed that, as MSN said nothing, it was only a temporary problem and that everything would be working again soon. Unfortunatly, this is Microsoft, so it never really worked right in the firts place. I have been supposedly sending emails for months, and I have got no messages to say they haven't been delivered. However, when I ask people if they received them, nothing got through. This has happened hundreds of times to me alone.

Due to the fact that this email service can't actually deal with emails I have decided it is the worst I have ever dealt with. Anyone else had this problem or agree with me?

Now I wouldn't call it the worst, but I'd call it something that is lagging behind other solid email services. I only ever got an msn email account because you had to to use MSN Explorer- that really cool facelift of internet explorer they had for a while. Not sure if it is still around.

But yeah, its loaded up with mailing lists and "Today at MSN" nonsense that I don't care about, it's hard to deal with when there are so many beter alternatives.

I also hate Hotmail and for some odd reason everyone I know talks about how great it is. I signed up for an account awile ago and it was far from being a good e-mail provider. The first thing that I do not like about it is those ad taglines that get sent out with your message. Secondly, they start out by giving you very little space by todays standard (I think its 25mb or something like that). If you live in the United States you can get up to 250mb, which is far behind the 1gb that even Yahoo offers. The ads in your inbox are really annoying. They really need to improve it a lot to be able to compete with other providers.

One word: Gmail. If thats even a word.

Hotmail lost my interest the second I tried gmail, mostly because of the ads. I hate ads, and hotmail has an awful lot of them, mostly in the form of popups, making it even worse. It refuses to work on school computers, and it has less memory and never picks up spam. It just.. bothers me. I don't think I ever really liked hotmail, but I never knew what else to use, so I stuck with it. Meh.. gmail solved any problem I had with email :\

As I said, I have loads of email accounts, including GMail, and I only use Hotmail for MSN and the odd email, however this is now impossible! GMail is a lot better that Hotmail, it's more reliable and faster to load. Oh, and Alfred, MSN Explorer is still around, but I think even Microsoft has abandoned it now.

I would have to agree that hotmail is quite possibly the worst. When you send emails to people with AOL accounts it sometimes takes up to 24 hours to go through. I once sent an email on a Friday to my friend and on Sunday morning she called me and said that she just got my email. It's seriously lagging and i would not recommend it. I would definitely recommend getting an account at GMAIL.com if you want a service you can depend on. I would even recommend yahoo over hotmail.

Hotmail really is the worst, on my pc 90% when I try to open it, it refuses.
The ads really slow things down and even automaticly reboots my pc o_O
It reports almoost everything as spam, I have to check out my spam everyday to see what is in there and put it back as non-spam.
I rather use gmail... Lots of space and can be used for email-clients, unlike hotmail

One word : Gmail. Gmail is the free mail service that I like. I give the enough spaces and some Google's services that I need.

I support Gmail and it's services.

I've had the same Hotmail account since I was 15 (6 1/2 yrs). I've seen many of it's different design phases. Honestly, I've never liked it. The only reason I have a hotmail account still is because I use it for MSN Messenger. Otherwise I use my gmail or my pop e-mail accounts. Hotmail is just as buggy as every other Microsoft product.