{"id":58,"date":"2005-03-03T09:12:09","date_gmt":"2005-03-03T15:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=58"},"modified":"2005-03-03T09:12:09","modified_gmt":"2005-03-03T15:12:09","slug":"hotmail-gone-down-the-tubes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/03\/03\/hotmail-gone-down-the-tubes\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotmail Gone Down the Tubes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used to love Hotmail for its convenience, but is it just me or has Hotmail really become sucky lately?  Even though they recently gave everybody a large amount of message space (250 MB I think), to compete with Gmail, I've begun to experience numerous problems with the rest of the service.  <!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ads\"><object type=\"text\/html\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" data=\"http:\/\/www.codedread.com\/gads.php\"><\/object><\/div>\n<p>Problems I've experienced with Hotmail include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Service seems very unreliable lately.  It feels like they've moved servers or something and they can't support the load of their user base\n<li>In the past, I have sent emails to my family members and friends - they never got them or the emails were delayed by up to one week<\/li>\n<li>when sending emails, sometimes it will give an error (despite the email being sent).  When my brother experienced this, he tried sending it a few times and got errors each time (though I got his email 5 times).  Then he reached his daily outgoing limit (which I didn't know existed!) so he can't send any emails today.<\/li>\n<li>I no longer seem to be able to save a shortcut\/bookmark directly to my Inbox, every time I click it, I get my Inbox with zero messages displayed.  I then have to log out of MSN, log back in and go to Hotmail.  What a major pain in the ass!<\/li>\n<li>When I log in to Hotmail, I get a \"Page Not Found\" error in one of the divs off to the left before it finally brings me to my Inbox.  Microsoft seems very unprofessional to have let this happen.<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I've decided to start the slow migration away from Hotmail to a more reliable form of communication.  All in all, Gmail puts Hotmail to shame nowadays.  I'm sure that Google has lit a fire under Microsoft (as evidenced by MSN Search surfacing), and we'll see Hotmail improve (the name\/brand just has too much cache for Microsoft to drop it).   But I'm getting hesitant to rely on any webmail service as they have too wide a user base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to love Hotmail for its convenience, but is it just me or has Hotmail really become sucky lately? Even though they recently gave everybody a large amount of message space (250 MB I think), to compete with Gmail, I&#8217;ve begun to experience numerous problems with the rest of the service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}