Gmail Takes Largest Webmail Service Crown 383
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?
FIFO (Score:5, Funny)
First in, First out. Cya, hotmail.
Spam good for big business (Score:1, Funny)
The main thing services like Gmail bring to email is well-maintained spam filtering, in exchange for general loss of control, privacy invasion, and advertising spewing into email. The unthrottled torrent of spam is great for keeping those services in business. Otherwise running something like Postfix is relatively low hassle, not especially worse than a web server (people still do run those). Spammers of the world, Google and Microsoft thank you for those billions in spam advertising revenue.
I pay for hotmail (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.
Mod parent up. (Score:5, Funny)
...then post anonymously to reverse it.