Serious Giggles ( whoopsie )
 

Ok, to cut a long story short, I was "resubscribing" to hotmail (don't ask) and was presented with this page, which appears to be trying to get you to pay £20 a year for hotmail (or a better version thereof)

What struck me as funny though, is look at the "benefits" to "virus scanning" ;)

Do they know something about McAfee we don't ?

http://www.datalas.com/cellar/whoops.png

Send that one to NeedToKnow...it's right up their alley. http://www.ntk.net/


See?: http://www.ntk.net/2002/05/03/dohleg.gif

It's amusing how they hide the "free hotmail" button in small text, which you have to scroll down for.

Every time I sign up for a hotmail account (may as well give my spam to Microsoft) it takes me a moment to remember where it is.

I am abandoning my hotmail account because of this subscription crap. They try to push it on you everywhere.

The first outrage was when they changed the first page hotmail presents you with from your inbox to a "homepage". Well that's just freakin' great! Now, when I type in 'www.hotmail.com', i'm brought to an advertising page (uh, I mean homepage). Then, i have to click on 'inbox' (in very small letters), and only <i>then</i> am I brought to my inbox.

The final straw was the 'storage-o-meter' that they put on the homepage. A little fucking bar graph depicting how much space (of your allotted 2MB) you've used up. This bar-graph produced in me "space-paranoia", wherein I found I was simply not happy unless the meter was in the green.

Of course, right below the meter was a nice little "Get more space" button.

And, oh yes, they don't let you forward your e-mail to another account, either. Hell, you might stop coming to the "homepage" then!

Don't let you auto-forward, or you can't forward email period?

Hope they don't start charging for MSN, if they had a service garantee here they'd go bust.

Not that I'd ever touch Hotmail, but is it just me or does it look like they still show ads when you subscribe? That bites, truly, especially with the size of ads these days. If I'm paying for a site I just don't think I should still see them.

Pete

I haven't used Hotmail since '97...pre-MS buyout. I have a Yahoo! account, but since Earthlink offers webmail, I've pretty much let go of the free e-mail services. I'm glad now b/c of shit like this. Perhaps MS needs more money for the next Windows...or for a future anti-trust lawsuit. :)

Yahoo! has pretty much let go of the free e-mail services, too. No more free forwarding etc.

http://www.business2.com/articles/we...,39938,FF.html

Welcome to the end of free .com

Fortunately, the .org's are still pretty much a free ride. ;)