Very pissed off at Hotmail...

[Luvian]

Recently, Hotmail® announced that in order to improve customer experience and reduce spam and junk e-mail abuse on MSN® services, Hotmail will no longer allow new e-mail accounts to be accessed via Microsoft® Office Outlook® and Outlook Express. ... ...this could be the ideal time to consider subscribing to our powerful new e-mail service - Microsoft Office Outlook Live. ... As a thank-you for your loyalty to MSN, we'd like to offer you a 25% discount off the regular price of a year's subscription to Outlook Live. Sign up by April 19, 2005, and you can enjoy all your first year's benefits for just CDN$55.95 instead of CDN$74.95*.

Ok, so charging 75$ for a previously free service is improving customer experience!?!

I know many way to express what I think of this, but none are familly friendly...

[ 02-24-2005, 03:28 PM: Message edited by: Luvian ]

[Q'alooaith]

would you rather get 50 junk emails per day from hotmail based senders?

It's only one feature of hotmail, a basicaly free email addy, now it's pure webmail, shame but still free's free..


Your gonna love Microsofts plans for software, you'll no longer buy stuff off the self and be able to use it till the end of time, you'll pay a subscrition fee for everything..

Well is MS get their way, just imagine, each year paying $50 for use of your OS, and then add on the cost of extras like image editing software, movie players and all that..

[Legolas]

The understatement is often family friendly. Something like:

"I would be inclined to disagree"
"The outcome of that study does not entirely correspond with my initial hypothesis"
or
"In my own humble opinion, that is not very nice of them"

Give it a try [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Link]

I gave up on Hotmail recently. I hated all the large spam mails I received, I never got Hotmail to recognize them and it's just a crappy service. All hail Gmail, king of the new free email providers!

[Spirits Reborn]

hey, i mean if you already have an account you can still use outlook so it's not big deal, and plus there's gmail (which rules)
and right now people'r getting invites like crazy.. i think gmail might be going public soon or somthing..

anyways, i don't really mind this, and wait for like 2 weeks, and there'll be a hack or crack that'll allow this... [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[Aragorn1]

If you want an invite i think i've got some about, better than hotmail, no spam and its free! And its got huge storage. PM if anyone wants one.

[Spirits Reborn]

Originally posted by Aragorn1: If you want an invite i think i've got some about, better than hotmail, no spam and its free! And its got huge storage. PM if anyone wants one.

dude, almost everyone's got invites, i mean i've got 50 and they refill the day after it's used..i gave 25 one day..and i had 50 again XD

so invites isn't a problem..i hope to anyone [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[Luvian]

Gmail already went public I think. I'm pretty sure I received an email saying that.

Your gonna love Microsofts plans for software, you'll no longer buy stuff off the self and be able to use it till the end of time, you'll pay a subscrition fee for everything.. Well is MS get their way, just imagine, each year paying $50 for use of your OS, and then add on the cost of extras like image editing software, movie players and all that..

I hope you are joking when you say it's a good idea. Irony is hard to detect on the net.

Originally posted by Legolas: The understatement is often family friendly. Something like: "I would be inclined to disagree" "The outcome of that study does not entirely correspond with my initial hypothesis" or "In my own humble opinion, that is not very nice of them" Give it a try [img]smile.gif[/img]

Ok, I'll give it a try.

I hope they die of cancer.

How did I do? [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[Legolas]

Not too badly. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[Kakero]

Still using hotmail? You got gmail already don't you Luvian? Why don't you use it?