Author Topic: Hotmail accounts (Read 325 times)

MrRiplEy[H] · « **on:** June 12, 2007, 03:40:31 PM »

Microshaft did it again..

All hotmail customers were upgraded to the lame 'live hotmail' system which basically only gave eye candy to the service. They say its free..

But it only cost you all of your e-mail history. Deleted. Gone. Poof.

Way to go Micro$haft.

Airscrew · « **Reply #1 on:** June 12, 2007, 04:02:58 PM »

whatchu talkin bout Willis? I checked my hotmail, looks like it did yesterday, all my junk mail is save and sound....

maybe its a time zone thing and they havent hit Texas yet, or maybe Gates hates finland

Masherbrum · « **Reply #2 on:** June 12, 2007, 04:05:43 PM »

I only use Outlook for work. I'll never use it at home.

RightF00T · « **Reply #3 on:** June 12, 2007, 09:08:18 PM »

AOL did the same thing...useless eye candy that doesnt load half the time for the email accounts. Didnt delete emails though thank god.

rpm · « **Reply #4 on:** June 12, 2007, 11:10:59 PM »

Samething happened to me. All the stuff I had saved in my folders is gone. My address book is empty, too. Unfortunately I had lots of business contacts stored there because that's one of the few sites I can visit from work.

MrRiplEy[H] · « **Reply #5 on:** June 13, 2007, 01:09:43 AM »

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Originally posted by rpm
Samething happened to me. All the stuff I had saved in my folders is gone. My address book is empty, too. Unfortunately I had lots of business contacts stored there because that's one of the few sites I can visit from work.

Moral of the story: Never trust Microsoft with your valuable data.

rpm · « **Reply #6 on:** June 13, 2007, 01:57:51 AM »

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Originally posted by MrRiplEy[H]
Moral of the story: Never trust Microsoft with your valuable data.

Moral of the story is store that on my new iPhone when I get it.

Booz · « **Reply #7 on:** June 13, 2007, 05:33:22 AM »

Paper and pencil still work

Airscrew · « **Reply #8 on:** June 13, 2007, 09:00:17 AM »

I guess I dont see what you guys are talkin about. My hotmail account is fine, nothing appears changed, all my folders are still there, still have all my email, my contacts are still there.

There is a link near the top asking me to Join Windows Live Hotmail, very scary stuff...

Maverick · « **Reply #9 on:** June 13, 2007, 09:52:37 AM »

I dropped hotmail with all the BS adds and other bandwidth wasting crap they put on it. I use Yahoo for mail as it is easily accessible from anywhere and doesn't have but a fraction of the garbage the hot(junk)mail pages had.

As far as saving critical items like contacts and stuff, download them to a thumb drive and or CD periodically.