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I find this absurd in this era of cheap storage. Blatantly anti-consumer.
by davidmurphy 16y ago
I find this absurd in this era of cheap storage. Blatantly anti-consumer.
- trotsky 16y agoDon't you think it's a bit over the top to call the lack of a feature on a free service blatantly anti-consumer? Microsoft's online services division loses $100M-$200M each quarter. Google retains the data indefinitely because it's in their best interests not because of their dedication to the user. Why else would they retain even what the user deletes?
- simonw 16y agoDeleting data from a large scale system I'd actually pretty difficult, since the whole system has been designed NOT to lose data (redundant copies, caches, multiple data centres, backups).
- contextfree 16y agoFWIW, my understanding is that Hotmail is not part of the online services division (which is Bing plus MSN), but rather the Windows division (that's why it's "Windows Live Hotmail"). Don't ask me why.