Google: Don’t expect privacy when sending mail to hotmail

Hotmail is one free web mail service provider which was used by everyone who needed to sign up on an email service for free. Even today, it is the starting webmail service by which the new users start on using internet. It offered merely 2 MB storage till a year or so ago to its users. And now, it has improved a few basic services and settings to prove itself in competition with other free mail providing services. Hotmail has also increased its email capacity to 250 MB to stand against its opponent Gmail.

While being the largest provider of the free webmail service worldwide, Hotmail still needs to improve on some grounds. If you have an account of Hotmail, you would’ve found that it has numerous ads on its web page and at some point it gives you an annoyance to go through the mails. Its pages also take longer time to load while other mail services don’t. The storage capacity is also not big enough in comparison to its rival mail providers such as Gmail and Yahoo.

Coming to Hotmail’s privacy issues, being the largest email service provider across the globe; it is the centre of attraction for hackers and other unauthorised users. Hotmail users have been targeted for the most spam mails among others. When Hotmail made changes in the design of the page of mail, it faced a huge rejection from the users. There was a time when some of the users had to lose the vital information from their mail accounts. Hotmail had requested to its users to change their passwords to protect their accounts. Some of the issues like troubleshooting issues can be handled by the users themselves on a personal level and for other technical ones there are third party assistance that users can get help from.

Hotmail has gone through the privacy issues last year when a former Microsoft employee was arrested for leaking out the privacy stuff of trades. He was accused of leaking out a number of windows related information. He was accused of providing the IP of Microsoft. Microsoft got to catch this activity of its employee through getting on the hotmail account of the blogger who was in contact with him. The employee had leaked out the screenshots of the pre-released version of the Microsoft windows operating system. Then the accused blogger started posting the MS windows product related comments to the sources which were not a part of Microsoft. Furthermore, if users face issues regarding any Hotmail Privacy, they shall contact the Hotmail support number for further assistance.