Windows Live Mail has a very clean interface. After you log in it shows you the news highlights for the day and how much of you 5GB of storage that you are using. Once you click on Inbox the only ad that you see, note I said ad, is the banner ad at the top of the page. Unlike Gmail where there are ads down the side and the top of my messages. AS for the address you can get to Hotmail by typing http://www.hotmail.com/ or http://mail.live.com/. While it may redirect to http://by108w.bay108.mail.live.com/mail/mail.aspx you certainly do not need to type that whole address.
As for logging in and having to use the @hotmail.com, that allows them to have more addresses than Google could ever hope to. They can use addresses for any of their sites: @msn.com, @uk.msn.com or any other site.
I would have to say that Windows Live Mail currently kicks the crap out of Gmail.
I don't think you understand the cost. I am in the University of Nebraska's engineering program and it is an extra $40 per credit hour, not course. So take the average load of 16 hours times $40 and that is $640 extra per semester. Over eight semesters that is $5120. So it is not just some $40 that students here complain about.
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Windows Live Mail has a very clean interface. After you log in it shows you the news highlights for the day and how much of you 5GB of storage that you are using. Once you click on Inbox the only ad that you see, note I said ad, is the banner ad at the top of the page. Unlike Gmail where there are ads down the side and the top of my messages. AS for the address you can get to Hotmail by typing http://www.hotmail.com/ or http://mail.live.com/. While it may redirect to http://by108w.bay108.mail.live.com/mail/mail.aspx you certainly do not need to type that whole address.
As for logging in and having to use the @hotmail.com, that allows them to have more addresses than Google could ever hope to. They can use addresses for any of their sites: @msn.com, @uk.msn.com or any other site.
I would have to say that Windows Live Mail currently kicks the crap out of Gmail.
I don't think you understand the cost. I am in the University of Nebraska's engineering program and it is an extra $40 per credit hour, not course. So take the average load of 16 hours times $40 and that is $640 extra per semester. Over eight semesters that is $5120. So it is not just some $40 that students here complain about.