Microsoft: use any e-mail address with Hotmail

[Leeky]

Skydrive is pretty cool, but it annoys me that I can't increase my storage. Also, why give a 25GB size for your skydrive, but only allow 5GB for Live mesh! It's crap, even if the service is excellent.

I only use hotmail for my live.co.uk email address, which has junk sent to it, everything else goes through gmail with my other email addresses all using gmail too. I just don't find hotmail/live mail to be flexible enough for my emailing needs.

Gmail annoys me too, as it only allows a total of 6 email addresses (1 is gmail), and I have 10 for various different addresses related to my domains. That said, gmail is pretty cool in allowing you to use multiple email addresses by adding + and then whatever you want to create a custom one (e.g. joe.bloggs+whatever text you want to add here @gmail.com) - It works really well with filters in place, as you can filter your custom email address to hit a certain folder rather than the inbox, etc.

I still prefer my personal email addresses through my domain though. Its nice having my name after the @ symbol.

 

[ZipZpZowie]

I don't see the big deal. I have my road runner account set up to send email to another eail account as a back up. I'm pretty sure this idea has been available for years.

 

[dlen]

This is the same functionality as gmail has. Finally Microsoft is going to add it. Previous functionality where e-mails were tagged as '..send on behalf of ..' wasn't good enough. Maybe I will move my account to hotmail?

 

[frodough]

hotmail when i was a kid, yahoo mail when i was in high school, gmail now, and never looked back. but i still use my hotmail acct occasionally for bing and yahoo mail for fantasy sports, if google offer those and got my friends to move, i'm gone

 

[silvershad0w]

microsoft still playing catchup with google? i think so.. this is a great feature for existing hotmail users who are already established and use to the service's interface. however, i would not hesitate to recommend gmail over hotmail. the interface on hotmail is typically clunky and slow. i cannot say that this is entirely true but id like to shed some light on the issue of hotmail being more vulnerable to security threats than gmail. both services have had their security breaches in the past, hotmails being the cause of a vulnerability in the system rather than google being a victim of the horrid IE6. google was more proactive in addressing the threat as best that they could and went as far as to enable ssl by default when connecting to the service. the battle of google vs. microsoft goes on

 

[Technochicken]

I've been doing this on my gmail since I have had it. I've never really liked the layout of hotmail either.

 

[blimp01]

Great, I really like the hotmail interface so Ill see if this works for me

 

[HaMsTeYr]

and why... Would I do this. You make it sound as if I miss hotmail.

 

[hitech0101]

Finally now they have realized they are behind & they need to take these kind of measures to get back.This move is going to take all mail users by storm.After years of research & countless money input they come up with this brilliant idea.Microsoft is surely headed backward in the right direction.

 

[kaonis92]

There are taking steps forward after the competitions has left them dissapear!

 

[jazboy]

this is much needed service for Hotmail specially when its available on gmail.

 

[xcelofjkl]

So how many emails do you have? I have one yahoo for spam and random website accounts, one gmail for work-related emails, and one hotmail for personal emails. Ha Ha.