ROFL

Seriously? People still use Hotmail? lol, it was utterly shit 10 years ago and still is I'm sure.

I still remember getting an account. Within 5 minutes and never even having used it I'd got half a dozen spam messages! Swiftly deleted and never returned. Sheesh, worse than Yahoo!!

All they need to do

is make hotmail available via IMAP. No-one needing to visit their crappy site == No complaints.

Of course, that means less eyeballs on the ads, so don't hold your breath.

It's interesting

Microsoft are breaking new ground here and I think it has taken them by surprise as a corporate entity.

In the past where they has a near total monopoly on the browser I dare say they just did IE testing and determined that other browsers weren't an issue. We all know about non-IE compatibility with Microsoft websites in the past.

They just can't do that now and they are finding out that standards and interoperability are a must in the real world, particularly for a high-profile website like Hotmail. I seem to remember interoperability is not something that Microsoft have a good record on.

both of you fail

I've been using hotmail for over ten years, it's my main account. i can get it on my android phone no problem. The nice new interface has worked perfectly for me.

so for AC, stuff has moved on in the last 10 years, this is called progress, being in IT you may have come across it before.

Seanmon, it is available over IMAP, and has been for years.

failing to understand your problems, and no i'm not an MS staffer, or any way connected to them.

Still brown

Hotmail still isn't very good, but as a lot of people use msn messenger ...

as for spam, my favorite one is creating an account for my cat (it was for a joke with a friend) and then the first email in there says "hot pussy wants you".

Beer, cause I could use one

Assumptions

I find it interesting that so many people assume hotmail accounts are required to use MSN. This is not true, you can create a LiveID with a GMail or any email address you want. LiveID = MSN access and any other MS site that uses Live ID's.

<Sarcasm>Hotmail is great</sarcasm>, at least for signing up to questionable sites or mailing lists... LOL I prefer my Gmail over hotmail and ISP mail any day.....

go gmail

Get a Gmail account & use that account to poll your hotmail account over pop3. that way you have webmail or IMAP or pop3 plus great access from android or iphone / ipod touch / ipad or most Nokias etc.

"switch off the High Contrast display mode"

That's like asking me to roll down my window to ensure proper power steering.

whats up

hotmail since the upgrade is better than it ever has been !

and yes you get lots of spam, although fairly well filtered these days

but i generally use it for catching anything i am not to sure of online, so it is basically a spam account anyway for me

and btw i don't use chrome, just firefox at home, and IE at work