Results of a recent study show that Half of Gmail Switchers come from Hotmail. The study was presented by Return Path who provide services for those who change email addresses. As popular as Hotmail is as an e-mail service it is probably not a big surprise that people switching to Gmail are coming from it, but it is still significant, especially if you’re Microsoft and you have taken for granted Hotmail’s popularity for the last several years.
I still have my Hotmail account and I use it regularly, but I noticed that more and more it functions as a “catchall” mailbox that I use for signing up for commercial websites.
Specifically, I am disappointed with the search functionality in Hotmail especially when paired with its inability to treat e-mail threads as conversations rather than one-off bits of communications, as it does. Gmail does it right and it’s the best way to go for now, for me.
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Well, nice to know: i come from hotmail…