Hotmail is a mediocre email provider. The attractive interface is a bit disorganized, but on the whole clean and easy to use. The features are improving, from the calendar, contacts, address book, storage organization (it can be broken down into folders), and junk mail filters (which are either too effective and block all incoming mail from unknown addresses, including people you know who've never written you before, or are too weak and allow junk such as pornography and advertisements into your inbox). Hotmail offers very limited space, only 2 MBs, while most other e-mail providers offer a much more decent amount of space that won't force you to continually empty you account, or else you'll be sent the famous You're approaching your account size limit e-mail from hotmail, which only takes more space from your account. And for the people who are new to hotmail and wish to create an account, good luck creating an e-mail address that hasn't already been taken! Of course hotmail can be improved (Hotmail Plus offers 2 gigabytes of storage space), but for a little bit of cash.