Podcast highlight: Microsoft's big bet on e-mail

Podcast highlight

Microsoft's big bet on e-mail
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Under pressure from Google, Microsoft has spent the last couple of years reworking Hotmail, its venerable Web mail program. But is it too little, too late? Click on the CNET News.com podcast to listen to what CNET News.com's Microsoft watcher Ina Fried has to say. That and the rest of the day's news, including a report on whether the digital divide is an outdated notion and a look at the emergence of a new demographic: digital kids and clueless parents.

[coryschulz]

I think it's too late

I switched from hotmail to gmail, and I'm so glad I did. Hotmail is just a waste of time and it would take a lot of reprogramming to compete with gmail.

Besides, I like Google better then MS.

[simstick]

Google is the new Hotmail

When the internet was first becoming popular I consulted with a Library on how to get people email addresses and we came up with Hotmail. It was the first and only choice at the time. But for years MS Hotmail and Yahoo could have been making improvements but they didn't until Google came along. Free pop access and secure login. Not to mention the fast interface for people on dialup.