Hotmail.com is the worlds first web based (and largest) email scheme owned and run by the Microsoft Network. Simply put, you can access your hotmail account from any Internet ready computer anywhere in the world. Hotmail users can use the service free of charge. Advertising on the M S N pays for the service. Which is great, as is anything free. The service has a few options, which may attract you to use it. These included an Inbox protector, and automatic virus scans of email attachments. When you receive an incoming email, which has an attachment, before Hotmail allows you to view the contents, it scans it with Mc’afee virus software. This has obvious protection, and is ideal for youngsters who might receive such an email.
A message comes up on screen telling you the attachment has a virus, and gives you the option of deleting it. Also Hotmail offers a service called ;inbox protector. This is a way to protect your inbox from all the junk mail. If your full email address isn’t placed in the address line of your incoming email; it gets dumped in the inbox protector, for you to check and delete or read as you wish. It all sounds excellent so does it work? Yes it does in part.
The trouble with Hotmail is that being such a big company other people get around the inbox protector by guessing email addresses, and often getting them right. After all you try getting the email address you want, and you’ll have to vary it probably. Another problem with Hotmail, again because of its size, is actually logging on to check your mail. It can take a good while to log in, and then to find a heap of unwanted junk e-mail is frustrating to say the least. Hotmail would be a reasonable service if it restricted email accounts, or reduced the number of idle accounts to make it more accessible. But as it stands, there are better services out there like yahoo.com. They offer similar services as Hotmail and again all for free. Registration is a normal web type form, asking you for your name address, country, time zone, user name, password etc, and is fairly straightforward. Hotmail offers 2MB of Email storage, and uses SSL (Secure Sockets Layer), Your username and password is your passport to other MSN sites (check https://passport.com/directory/default.asp?PPlcid=1033 for details).
If Hotmail sounds tempting to you, then give it a try you have nothing to lose after all. And maybe you might catch the less busy times.