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Gmail Takes Largest Webmail Service Crown

Posted by Unknown on from the nsa-scheme-proceeding-as-planned dept.

redletterdave writes "After several years of dominance, Microsoft's Web-based email service, Hotmail, has been unseated by Google's significantly younger webmail service, Gmail. Google announced it had about 350 million monthly active users in January; since then, that number has ballooned to 425 million." Remember when people ran their own mail servers?

3 of 383 comments (clear)

  1. FIFO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    First in, First out. Cya, hotmail.

  2. I pay for hotmail by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    and I'm not ashamed to say it. The pay service ( I think its still 20 a year) has very good spam detection and its online gui is quite similar to a desktop client. I primarily use gmail, but I still do hop back into hotmail for password resets or to look up old receipts.

  3. Mod parent up. by tbird81 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...then post anonymously to reverse it.