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microsoft plans to start charging people for hotmail starting in july. who's going to pay? not me. |
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Me neither,fuck that,they could burn in hell...Why the charge all of the sudden...MSN are multybillionares.... |
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lol its so sad when idiot web people try to charge u for a service that you can get so easily absolutely free anywhere else thats like those services where u pay to have a web-newspaper delivered to ur email every day nono... its not special news.. just normal every-day CNN BS news.... the stuff u can find absolutely free at hundreds if not thousands of other sites! who would pay!??! another example: www.gamespot.com game shit.... news, reviews, screenshots etc.... absolutely NOTHING exclusive...... u can find this shit anywhere else for abosutely free! then, what did they do just last month? they try to make u start paying for it! what kind of idiot would PAY to see screenshots of unreal2 that are available for free at the official site?!?!?! |
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Couldn't said it better myself AMinal...That's completely right,besides there are lots of competition nowdays within the net that if you don't like it some site,well,move on to the other that offers you something better,maybe better quality...... |
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Are you fucking kidding me??? christ, how hard is it to provide free email when you're the richest evil corporation in the world? They've already cut down on storage limits and you have to log in once a month or they delete everything. I guess I shouldn't be surprised then. I recommend Yahoo mail. no spam, fast, simple. |
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ya, i use yahoo mail too... i get spam EXTREMELY RARELY and the mailbox for yahoo is 6MB.... if im not mistaken, hotmail's is only 1MB? |
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not ME...NO fuckin way |
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Had to happen sooner or later... How much are MS charging?...if they get the price right & make paying easy (which I guess they will) then I reckon quite a large number will pay up...especially if they've quoted their email addy to a lot of people... I know it's fairly easy to set & swap to a diff service but I can see a lot of their current users staying with Hotmail, especially people who don't know better...Good business, I guess, even if it feels a bit sneaky to us... I wish XP didn't try and co-erce you into joining MSn/Hotmail...too easy to get lumbered with a service you don't want...they even nearly got me and I like to think I know what I'm doing, fuck knows how your average user deals with this sort of thing... |
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it IS going to be a bitch to switch from an email address i've used for 5 years. not only do i have to save all 850 of my inbox emails as html files on my dialup modem, i have to inform a hundred people of my new email address. |
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Hahaha fuck hotmail, they can all go kill themselves. They first started doing this shit to my account where they delete all my emails unless I pay to 'upgrade my account', oh yeah, and they delete my account (along with all my emails) within 30 days of inactivity, unless I 'upgrade my account'. Microsoft, feel the wrath of my cable connection's pop3 email! |
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i use yahoo......i have for years. and while i don't pay for my 6mb of space i would IF i had to because YAHOO mail RAWKS. no spam for me, quick, easy, i've never had a problem. i have a hotmail account which i use rarely, all i ever get is spam and msn CRAP-O-LA. i won't miss it. damn msn is an EVILLLLLL corp! =( |
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yeah, it's people like you (who use Hotmail a lot) who MS are after...I guess they reckon that people will rather pay a small amount, if it is that, than go thru the hassle of switching.... Wonder if any of the other free mail people out there are doing anything for ex-hotmail users who want to swap?...one of em should make it painless & reap in a load of new punters... |
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Yahoo!here I come! |
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microsoft wants more money?? now they truely are evil arent they?! |
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never be enough to fill me up |
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Im pretty sure Il;l be moving to YAHOO too...:) |
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i opened up my wallet and it was full of blood |
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I've 2 email accounts. One for personal (my Animenation one) and one for subscriptions and junk (my Hotmail one) so, I wont miss it anyway. |
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i've had my hotmail one since 1997.. and i get about 10-20 junk emails a day. ....oh, theres another one. |
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can u give a link to the news story? or is this just going around in one of those chain letters. |
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well this sucks, because like titsworth, me and lots of other people will want to save their emails, and theres no easy way for that. Second, i love how hotmail is linked to msn messenger. Thats a great system. Yahoo messenger on the other hand is a pretty crappy program IMO.. |
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ok, i really dont buy this. there is no news on the hotmail website, nor in my account. July is less then a month away, and they cant force this change on you with such short notice. I think its just a rumor. -Zeus |
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Its no rumour. They tried to get my girlf to pay and she told them to fuck themselves. I tried to set up an account the other week but I would have had to pay. Capitalist bastards. |
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then why have i not been informed in my hotmail account? its true that if you want to upgrade, you have to pay... but the basic service is free. -Zeus |
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I've just created myself another Hotmail account and it works fine! The screen you get to about account activation has small print at the bottom of the screen showing the two type of account, the 10MB (£19.99 a year deal in UK) and the 2MB free account, you need to click the little hyperlink I've been using my 2Mb Hotmail account for ages.....and like Zeus I haven't heard any different! So...I'm not worried in the slightest....but as ever you still have to login to the account at least once every 30 days....but I use MSN Messenger so not a problem... Panic over people! |
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Obviously and understandably, Microsoft are wanting to make the £19.99 the desired choice - and a lot of people will probably upgrade. But for the rest, I would think it is business as usual! |
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hahaha I am SSOOOOOO NOT gonna pay. It's slow and full of spam, tho i'll have to find an alternative for msn :( |
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It does work - 'cos Jonesy has registered this afternoon too! :) |
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I didn't notice anything,so there is noproblem for me.. |
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Yes, I successfully registered with the help of my Jedi Master. They have set the pages up so that you think you have to pay. Nice tactics. |
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hotmail sucks get yahoo.com |
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no fuckin way! those hotmail bastards! yahoo sucks though.... |
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no fuckign way i am signed up to recieve porn at my HOTMAIL ACCOUNT. fuck this shit ill do what i usually do and write a whole bunch of hatemail letters. i did it (slightly) when mp3.com turned shite, i did it when ampcast kicked me off, i did it to Penny arcade when i accidentally got banned (board error, i found out it happened to loads of other ppl) and ill do it again |
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I bet former Bill Gates puppet "Thelonious Punk" should have a few comments to say on this topic, I am sure!!! Hehe my only problem is this: MSN MESSENGER!!! None of my friends on it will want to fucking switch to Yahoo email or Yahoo messenger for that matter!!!!. . . it'll just be really awkward. And what will sending hatemail accomplish, might I ask?? |
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Aren't you guys listening???? It isn't a problem!!!!!! |
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But the first guy said it was in July that they'd start charging, Jedi Chris!!! Maybe the messages about charging money are just warnings that you WILL have to start paying in the future. . . |
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I think i'm gonna get me one of these accounts |
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xlr------------kool |
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i read the article in the washington post business section, it's not like i'd make it up just for an interesting but fake discussion |
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drat, i found the article and i remembered it incorrectly.. sorry guys. only people who use POP accounts will be forced to pay money to continue using hotmail that way; everyone else is fine........ for now. |
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fuck no... i only use my hotmail account for junkmail... it's kinda funny...I have had that mailaccount since 1997...my pass still has 4 caracters though it's required to have at least 6 *heh* |
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I've had a hotmail account since '98 but stopped using it when Apple brought out the mac.com address (coz I'm such a Machead) and have had NO spam mail since (Jan 2000). My hotmail account is a joke, extremely slow and FULL of spam. The junk mail filter is hopeless. |
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