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Hotmail is a complete and utter mess; short passwords, constant account breaches, spam, spam, spam - I wouldn't throw stones.
by dhughes 15y ago
Hotmail is a complete and utter mess; short passwords, constant account breaches, spam, spam, spam - I wouldn't throw stones.
- pagekalisedown 15y agoAccording to Microsoft, you have your priorities wrong, and you should be more concerned about targeted ads. :) Edit: No sense of humor?
- S_A_P 15y agoIn fairness, isnt office 365 different than hotmail?
- rbanffy 15y agoIsn't 365 the paid (unlike Hotmail) alternative to Google Apps for Business?
- onemoreact 15y agoYou can use long passwords with Hotmail. Also, I get a lot more Gmail spam than on my old hotmail act, but that could be because I use my name with Gmail so bot's can just guess it. PS: Both companies integrate your email act with other services. So I have been doing a side to side comparisons for a while and while I like Gmail's interface a Significantly more, Hotmail seems to have a better backend.
- dhughes 15y agoI'll have to go check again I only recently got it working and I'm quite sure the password I chose was restricted to something like 10 to 15 characters. Nearly all my passwords for other site are a minimum of 25 (completely random) characters if not longer. It took me a good solid week of e-mailing support, MS forums, Googling to get it unlocked. People constantly spam it or think it's their account (I've had it since '97) so they constantly try to log into it which apparently locks me the legitimate user out of the account, great feature!
- onemoreact 15y agoTyping random passwords that long is simply a waste of time. 70^15 ~= 10^27 passwords assuming a 10 billion computers each checked a 100 billion passwords a second after 10,000,000,000 years there would be a 0.1% chance they cracked your account.