The Downide of Your ISP Turning to Gmail

Posted by kdawson on Sunday May 20, 2007 @04:26PM from the Google-Apps-Partner-Edition dept.

SlinkySausage writes "Google is offering ISPs the opportunity to turn over their entire email operation to Google, with all customer email hosted as Gmail accounts. This would allow Google to grow its user base rapidly (Google is a distant third with 51M users compared to Yahoo's 250M and Hotmail's 228M). There are some obvious benefits to end users — Google is offering ISPs mailboxes of up to 10GB per user. APCMag.com has posted an interesting piece looking at the dark side of Google's offer. Not least is in its reinforcing of the attachment people have to their ISP's email address, making it harder to change ISPs if a better deal comes along."

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Re:Useless article. by Kenyon · 2007-05-20 17:48 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Holy shit, I logged into my old Hotmail account the other day. God damn was that a painful experience. Hundreds of spams in the inbox. You can't even view the full headers of an email anymore. Fucking Windows Live bullshit sucks on Firefox. I hope Hotmail dies a quick, painful death, along with Microsoft just for the hell of it. Fucking cancers of the Internet, like MySpace.