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I hear rave reviews about the recently-revamped Hotmail, but haven't quite overcome my prejudice against the brand to try it.

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Any details on what you've heard good about it? It was so slow and poorly laid-out for me that I finally decided to trust Microsoft with my gmail address enough to let them forward my hotmail there.

Hotmail user since the pre-gmail days here. It's actually pretty good. It's a little to "busy" for my tastes, but it runs well on every browser I tested it on. Hotmail also re-directs to a very good mobile site on the iPhone.

Full disclosure - I am paying like $20 per year or something for the "enhanced" service, but I don't even know what that includes any more. It used to be Outlook connectivity and more storage. I haven't used Outlook (at home) in years, and I don't think my account goes over the size of the free storage.

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