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An uproar is probably absent because nobody really uses these services. Anybody remotely tech savvy ditched hotmail years ago and bing has never really taken off.

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Last year, Microsoft reported [1] that Hotmail has 360 million users. Earlier this year VentureBeat reported [2] numbers from comScore putting Hotmail ahead of Yahoo Mail and Gmail with 325 million users.

[1] http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2011/07/05...

[2] http://venturebeat.com/2012/06/28/gmail-hotmail-yahoo-email-...

IIRC, it's easier to get a hotmail account than a gmail account (or at least it used to be) because you have to go through some verification to get a Gmail account.

Hotmail seems to be popular with spammers and people creating throwaways probably for that reason.

Hotmail is the world's largest webmail service. Bing has 15% of the search market; Google only has ~4 times that. Let's not pretend nobody uses these sites.

By "nobody" I mean very few people who go on the internet and create uproars. Hotmail is probably mainly used by grandmas and spammers.

Agreed. Myself and a few tech-savvy friends only use hotmail as a spam collector, you know, to sign up for one-time stuff that insists on getting a password from you.

I use Hotmail as my primary. Hate gmail UI. Yahoo is really the one I'd like the most but I have been using Hotmail since ages and love the skydrive integration.

Bing only has 15% in the US. Globally, it has less than 5% where Google is closer to 90%, so yes, for all intents and purposes, very few people (who would be affected by this policy) use Bing.

Hotmail is the market leader even among tech-savvy people in some non-U.S. markets. For example, they're very big in some Spanish-speaking countries.

I use hotmail as my primary address. Why ditch it? I access my email via a client 99% of the time anyway. What tech savvyness am I missing?

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