I finally got sick of it. Microsoft does some things well but is increasingly finding that the substitutes do it way better. If I wasn’t tied to MS project for my job I’d be on a Mac right now (I may still but need to evaluate some cross over products).
Case in point: Hotmail.
I quit using hotmail about a year ago now, mainly because I got sick of constantly weeding through spam. I still use MSN messenger to keep in touch with certain people so I am able to easily keep tabs on the growing size of my inbox. I am proud to announce that it topped 1,000 emails yesterday, 95% of which are sure to be spam.
On the flip side, I have been using Gmail for the past year or so and can remember only having to report 3-4 items as spam.
As you can see, Gmail still gets a lot of spam – the difference is that it goes to my spam folder, not my inbox. Once again Microsoft has missed the boat.
Let’s not forget that Microsoft also sends you SPAM that is from hotmail and any filters you create to block it are ignored. One of the reasons I stopped using it. At least they did last time I used hotmail (in the late 90s).