hmm, I just use both. I dont really care about which is better, but I do recieve listings in gmail and other subscription mails. Hotmail is what I use for my personal email, and contacts, etc. Also it is what I use for my messenger and what I have been using for years, so I am already used to its interface. I do find Gmail being pretty fast, although its interface is just not quite there.

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Gmail has been pretty good with blocking spam for me..on the other hand Hotmail Mail has lots of spams.. and I hate spam,

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GMAIL is much much better. Hotmail sucks, and it is getting worse every day. On the other hand, GMail is getting better every day and so are all the other Google services.

Hotmail deletes your e-mails, suspends your accounts, come on! Any e-mail provider is better than hotmail.

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Most people say that Hotmail only gives you 250MB. In fact, Hotmail is soon to become Windows Mail Live!, and if you join in with the beta of the new Windows Mail Live! service (which you can join either by clicking "Try the New Beta!" in the MSN Hotmail Inbox, or by registering a new HotMail account) you will get 2GB, which I've heard is more than what Google gives. Plus you don't get any spam anymore (and if you do they have a filter that will delete anything they suspect as spam after five days), while a lot of my firend's google accounts have been subject to heavy spamming (a problem that used to happen to hotmail).

Windows Live! Messenger is also much better than Google Messenger. For one, the new messenger allows you to communicate with Yahoo adresses, and for another, it is much more advanced.

But I do have to admit, HotMail does suck. It's laggy, and not keeping up with the times. Go for Google if you want Mail only, but go with MSN if you want a brilliant Instant Messenger that nearly everyone uses.

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I as 107 other people have voted for Gmail, there are so many different reasons why Gmail is the best. I have used both of the email services and would have to say i prefer Yahoo but thats not an option. The best of the two is definitely Gmail, it has a SPAM folder, now i havent used hotmail for about a month so don't start saying that im an idiot and that Hotmail does have one, as it didn't when i used it. Also Gmail has a massive amount of space and as they say, you don't even have to bother deleting messages. A very useful feature of Gmail is the ability to search all your messages for either a keyword or sort it by messages from a certain person. The message system is easy to use and understand, as its like a single conversation with one person, each time you reply or they reply it gets added to tabs. So you can click each tab and read all the messages. When i used Hotmail i constantly kept getting SPAM messages and junk mail, with Gmail i may still get some but it all gets added into a SPAM folder. I also like the option to delete all the mail in the SPAM folder, as sometimes i get abit lazy and don't check my mail for weeks and sometimes have over 100 messages. Gmail is definitely the best out of the two, its design is sleek and also it has so many great features.

 

 

 

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i like gmail better than hotmail but i think there are a lot better than gmail

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Definitely Gmail.
It uses AJAX which Microsoft copied for its new Windoze Live Mail, which is slow and rarely loads successfully. MS copied many other ideas from Google. Their search still sucks, so does their AJAX mail app. Original = Best. Gmail is responsive and quick, and its open source. Also it isn't owned by a company like Microsoft. I believe Gmail is cleaner, and not bloated unlike Windows Live Mail. If this is original hotmail we're talking about, I believe there is really nothing good about hotmail, except maybe it is more responsive than Windows Live Mail. I really don't get the point of MSN - it is really just another portal with ads. Even I could make one using a FREE open source Content Management System and some mods once I get my account here, but without ads. I just LOVE this forum - I can actually express my opinions. Another reason why MSN sucks btw - no PROPER forum.

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I would definitely be using GMail if it wasn't for the MSN Messenger I have been using to contact my friends. I have seen people using GMail and then signing to MSN, but I do not know how to do that. The other thing would be that I won't get automatic updates if my email has a new message just like MSN.

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I was using hotmail but now I am using gmail ,It has just excellent service

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i am using live aka hotmail and i find it be better than g-mail the feature that g-mail lacking is secruity and in today world that is the number one feature that should be strong everything else should come after. When the release of live comes out gmail will be nothing compared to it. People who have windows live will no what i am talking about.

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