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Hotmail, now with less ads

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If you have a paying relationship with MSN (you are an MSN subscriber or Hotmail Extra Storage user) you no longer see any banner ads when using Hotmail.

Just one of many enhancements coming to a hotmail near you ;-).

This also marks my first release as part of the Hotmail Team. Shipping a version of Hotmail is nothing like shipping client bits, and I enjoyed contributing to this release. More details soon.

PS - some one else noticed some other changes.

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  • Anonymous
    July 20, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    July 20, 2004
    Sorry to hear that, and sorry for your problems. Hotmail will get better, I promise. But it seems in your case the damage was done. Just so you know, isolated incidents like this can occur. We do everything we can to prevent them from happening. And there is no guarantee this won't happen with your gmail account either.

  • Anonymous
    July 20, 2004
    Everybody has a pair of hotmail accounts plenty of spam, every day.

    I have two and only open it to maintain open.

  • Anonymous
    July 20, 2004
    No offense but what percentage of your base are paid hotmail customers?

    My free hotmail account still shows 2 megs which is the primary reason I haven't used it since getting a gmail account. Also the longer we use gmail and the longer we have access to instant sort and subtle advertising the less likely we are to go back to those giant banner ads.

    Winning this game is quite simple:

    1. Eliminate or make very subtle almost all advertising.

    2. Chill out on the branding.

    3. Let us search our mail as fast as google.

    4. Do not deactivate accounts if we are traveling for 2 months.

    5. At leat 250megs of space for free accounts. 1 Gig would be better.

    6. Better syncing options with outlook/entourage address books.

    Don't get me wrong, I like hotmail, I want to go back, in general I like the interface, but I'm not going to pay for hotmail account on top of my internet service with surcharge for dsl, on top of my phone phone bill. Gmail has been improving in leaps and bounds in a way I haven't seen hotmail change in years. You guys had better watch your back! Somebody's about to eat your lunch.

  • Anonymous
    July 20, 2004
    I can't understand some of the comments here. One guy buys a yahoo account and a hotmail account? what did one paid account offer you that the other didn't? If your major gripe was the space and hotmail losing your message, why are you going to buy a gmail account after having one for free, its already more storage then your paid accounts?

    2 megs isn't a lot of mail space, but if you are storing more than 20 megs of email it seems like you are using it for file storage. 250 megs is much more than too much for me.

    I personally have 7 hotmail accounts that I use for various reasons, using Outlook to retrieve all the messages. The accounts that I've never given to anyone have never gotten spam. Hotmail doesn't beget spam, you giving the email address out begets spam.

  • Anonymous
    July 20, 2004
    Here is what my new experience has been:

    http://geekswithblogs.net/jglynn/archive/2004/07/21/8621.aspx

  • Anonymous
    July 20, 2004
    I got several hotmail accounts and Verizon DSL with MSN premium. Will these new feature be avaible to the hotmail accounts that I linked to the MSN premium account?

  • Anonymous
    July 20, 2004
    You didn't tell me your email. My hotmail is jlsglynn@hotmail.com. As far as a screen shot, nothing to look at other then an empty inbox.

  • Anonymous
    July 20, 2004
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    July 21, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    July 21, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    July 21, 2004
    Good comments on this page!

    I have noticed that Microsoft just simply has problems providing quality email systems.

    Hotmail and Exchange are BOTH problematic.

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    August 04, 2004
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