Gmail finally overtakes Hotmail as world's top email service

I've had a Hotmail account long before I had my Gmail one, I use them both in Windows Live Mail via POP3. I don't do web mail, my Hotmail is mainly for all things Microsoft related like Security newsletters, update notices etc.

My Gmail is tied in with my Facebook account and Google Plus, although to be honest I very rarely go to Google Plus these days.

I think I have enough email addy's including my ISP ones to be going on with for now, oh and they're all free ones as well.

What is this Company bashing. You like what you like!

When I got my first pc, the ISP was AOL, so I used it's Email which I still have. Then I started using Live Messenger and needed a Hotmail account, still got it also. Being an inquisitive person, I got a Gmail account and immediately liked the part where I could keep or delete what & when I decided. What I didn't like was the limited tweaks (too many to name). Then I found I could use Gmail in WLM, it was like finding the legendary pot of gold at the end of a rainbow.
In the survey, I wonder how many who liked Gmal, use it in conjunction with WLM.

It's interesting to me that many people want to consolidate all of their email into a single client such as WLM like Roderunner mentioned above. I keep my various email accounts (Hotmail, gmail, yahoo, etc...) separate and prefer to log in to them separately.

strollin said:

It's interesting to me that many people want to consolidate all of their email into a single client such as WLM like Roderunner mentioned above. I keep my various email accounts (Hotmail, gmail, yahoo, etc...) separate and prefer to log in to them separately.

Hi strollin, I only use Gmail in WLM but with tweaks applied.

galaxys said:

Always used gmail mostly because of android phones and never had hotmail...

You must be fairly new to the game then. Gmail didn't even come about until 2007 while Hotmail has been around since 1996. I actually have some emails saved in Hotmail that are dated from 1998.