Windows Hotmail is an Epic Fail

Sun, Jun 7, 2009, by jadendave

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Reasons why you should never get Windows Hotmail.

I made my first email account close to 5-6 years ago, though everything I wrote was complete idiocy, I had a lot of sentimental feelings towards them after reading them through the course of time.

  • Emails with completely horrible spelling.
  • Emails to close friends at the time of nerdism.
  • Emails that contained the secret of epic flirting.
  • Emails to friends who are no more in contact.
  • Emails to boring family members.
  • Emails where friends taught you the meanings of “lol”, “idk”,”brb” and such.
  • Emails and replies to girls that I used to boast oh so much to my peeps.
  • Emails of childhood gossips (Like Harry Potters new boyfriend).
  • Loads of bloody emails about Lego’s and Barbie’s. (From my friend Isaac of course)

Emails of Total Innocence

The mistake I made however, was creating my first email through Hotmail. I did have Yahoo account, but only for the chatting feature. Then I got a Gmail account after about 2 years and only checked my Hotmail now and then to see crap emails from Microsoft. I think the rule then was that if you didn’t log into the account in a years time all your messages will be deleted. But not too long ago, it changed from 1 year… to 1 month :(

I logged into my Hotmail account after 2 months time yesterday, and found all my old emails GONE. They could have just deleted my whole account instead, but logging in to see no messages in your inbox is irritating like hell. So if any of you peeps go make a Hotmail account, think twice. I should add that since being a Microsoft product, you would foresee how stupid and cheap it is and not make a mistake like this one.

There are only three reasons why you would get a Hotmail account:

  • E-mail address inertia
  • You are a Microsoft employee or
  • You like pain.

So quit being a dumbass :D (apologies to all my friends who use Hotmail), and go get yourself a trusty service like Gmail (or Yahoo).

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  1. Jam Says:

    Your statement is incorrect. Hotmail does not remove your data after 1 month of inactivity.

    Hotmail accounts become inactive if you don’t sign in for more than *270 days* or within 10 days after you create the account. After an account becomes inactive, everything is deleted. If someone sends an email to that address, it is sent back to them as undeliverable (this is a good way to test if your account is really inactive). The account name is good for another 90 days past the 270, but after the 360th day it’s pretty much going to be deleted.

    Is it possible that you created your hotmail account in an email application and downloaded the messages? If you did create your hotmail account in Outlook for example and did not opt to leave a copy of the message on the server, as soon as the messages were received by Outlook, they would be removed from the Hotmail server.

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