Loyal To Hotmail

I have been a loyal Hotmail user for a long long time. It was my first email account and at that time Hotmail wasn't even under Microsoft!! Microsoft only announced that it was acquiring Hotmail in early 1998. I was doing my Degree in US at that time, it was pretty amazing because it was one of first web based free e-mail (if I am not mistaken there are others like RocketMail).I have since moved on and hardly anyone I know, uses Hotmail anymore. I still take great pains to keep the account alive because you never know when a long lost friend might contact you. I had to re-sign up 2 times over the years because my account had become inactive.

Hotmail was trying very hard to compete with other big boys which in few months back they have upgraded their inbox capacity to 250 MB and just recently to 1 GB!. It's a welcome move but I can't just help but wonder whether they have missed out on the boat. Most of my friends have since, moved onto Yahoo! and Gmail.

I will always remain loyal to Hotmail.