Hotmail Sucks
December 26, 2006This post joins the millions of “Hotmail Sucks” posts. My reasons:
- No tools offered by Hotmail to export contacts into csv or vcard files
- No POP3 email support for non-Microsoft email clients
- No auto-forwarding to another email address
In effect, hotmail.com want to make it difficult for you to switch webmail providers, because the above features make it easy for email users to lessen dependence to just one provider. But it is because of such flexibility that I use Gmail. I want to be able to import and export contacts to and fro my computer to my webmail. I want to download and backup my webmail in my computer. I don’t need it now but there might be a day when I want to enable automatic forwarding of my webmail to another email address. Gmail does all these things, Hotmail doesn’t at all.
On top of that, one can force Gmail to send email in Unicode (UTF-8). For people who write in multiple languages in one email, that is the only way to go. I couldn’t find this setting in Hotmail. So, Hotmail sucks!
