How Much More Can Hotmail Suck?
I gave up on using Hotmail a few months ago. But from time to time I’ve had to log back in to retrieve pieces of information I needed. Today I went back for the first time in months and discovered that my inbox was full of junk mail… all 1500+ of them! And the “Junk Mail” box? Less than 200…
Unlike Gmail or Yahoo, where junk mail filtering success rate is practically 98+%, Hotmail is the exact opposite. Talk about being a miserable failure.
Microsoft seems to be producing a bunch of flops lately… Everything from Hotmail, XBox game console, Zune music player to Windows Vista is pretty sucky. Unfortunately, millions of people still use its products willingly or not. Many businesses are locked in to Microsoft’s products partly because the only kinds of applications they need only exist on Windows (though that’s been less likely the case since the resurgence of the Macs).
I hope Microsoft loses enough market share to Apple and other competitors in all markets to make them feel vulnerable and start innovating again. I mean, com’on, five years and five BILLION dollars on a copycat of Mac OSX is NOT innovation. But of course, the culture for innovation just isn’t in Microsoft’s blood. So it’s kind of oxymoron to put the word “innovation” and “Microsoft” in the same sentence…. there, I just did it again…
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April 12th, 2007 at 12:07 am
Actually once you tell hotmail what is junk just by hitting the “this is junkmail” button, it does a good job of learning. I never get junk mail in my inbox, but I still have to go through my junk mail to retrieve non-junk.
Maybe I set it to make everything junk except what I tell it ISN’T junk… whichever way, it works OK.
April 18th, 2007 at 2:14 am
I set my hotmail to only put mail from known senders in the inbox. The rest gets put in the junk folder and I check it when I have time. You can also set advanced filters that will put messages with certain words in specific folders. I’ve had mine since we were at SCAD (1997 I think) and I just can’t get rid of it after all this time
April 18th, 2007 at 10:53 am
Heh, thanks for all the tips. My own solution is just to stop using it!