I think most people switch to Gmail mainly because
1. Its spam filter. Remember in the Hotmail days Spam was rampant, and desprite Microsoft best effort ( or not ) they couldn't make Hotmail close to Spam Free, not to mention lots of false positive.
Gmail was the only email services that filtered Spam good enough.
2. And more Importantly; Unlimited Space! Or at least the perception of it. You no longer had to delete email. For people here aren't old enough to know. We used to use Email actually for ALL communication instead of Whatsapp / MSN / ICQ / AIM or what other IM. And people dont want those personal conversation to be deleted. They treasure it.
Unfortunately Hotmail deleted all my old email because of some 6 or 12 months inactivity. I lost all my old record ( Love letter ) then.
1. Its spam filter. Remember in the Hotmail days Spam was rampant, and desprite Microsoft best effort ( or not ) they couldn't make Hotmail close to Spam Free, not to mention lots of false positive.
Gmail was the only email services that filtered Spam good enough.
2. And more Importantly; Unlimited Space! Or at least the perception of it. You no longer had to delete email. For people here aren't old enough to know. We used to use Email actually for ALL communication instead of Whatsapp / MSN / ICQ / AIM or what other IM. And people dont want those personal conversation to be deleted. They treasure it.
Unfortunately Hotmail deleted all my old email because of some 6 or 12 months inactivity. I lost all my old record ( Love letter ) then.