When the Internet became a major public communications medium in the 1990s, many saw it as a great opportunity for a personal and instant communication system email. Many free email providers arrived, but the first major player was Microsoft.
So the race to provide the most profitable and popular email service began
Microsoft Hotmail.
This has always been the most popular email service on the web. It is success is mainly due to massive publicity, worldwide services and has now become nearly the default email service for starting Internet users.
If you want an email, you go to Hotmail. It was barely threatened by other companies until the recent launch of Google Gmail. A year or so ago, Hotmail offered a measly 2 MB storage for email. Gmail launched a massive 1 GB email
service for public use. Luckily for Hotmail, Gmail is currently in beta and only available through an invitation based signup.
Hotmail has now increased email capacity to 250 MB in an effort to rival Gmail.
It's pages load slower than other providers. Ads are found literally everywhere. Even with 250MB, the capacity is still small in comparison to Gmail and Yahoo Mail. Being the largest provider of email, it is also the most targeted by hackers and unauthorized users.
On the other hand it has the backing of Microsoft, has generally high quality spam and virus filters, has nice html email features and also works beautifully with other Microsoft products such as msn Messenger.
There have been 2 privacy issues raised with Gmail. Firstly, the unobtrusive and generally clean looking ads on the right of most pages are contextual. Everytime you view an email, you are email content is analyzed and then converted into ads for Google revenue. According to Google, this is all done by robots not humans, and therefore the email is never read by any humans, but none the less, many users get freaked out when they see their email posted in ad form on the right of the screen.
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