Whats the Best Free Webmail Service?
Last week, we discussed “killer apps” and whether web applications can ever replace the “real thing” on the local computer. More about that in the follow-up. Meanwhile, this past week I spent some time with the three most popular webmail services: Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo! Mail. My opinions are, of course, only opinions, and yours may differ due to personal preferences and how you use the services. Here are my impressions of the good, bad and ugly pertaining to each. I’ve used Hotmail and Gmail for a long time, but I use the web interfaces only when I absolutely have to – that is, when I’m forced to use a computer other than one of my own (and thus one that doesn’t have Outlook installed and set up to get the mail from those accounts). This past week, I bit the bullet and worked with the web apps for those mail services, and I also set up a Yahoo! Mail account to see how it compared. Here are my experiences: First I discovered that Yahoo is really serious about keeping kids from signin
