Personally, I never liked Yahoo! Mail that much, and Gmail is just terrible. Infact, the hole of Google is terrible. It just used four basic pale colours and a white background.

How do we know that Hotmail wouldn't disappear into Yahoo! Mail? For one thing, doesn't Yahoo! have more customers? And they have some nice features that Hotmail lacks... in either case, it'd be a shame to see so much work developing an all-new platform go to nothing.

i think they should keep the windows live UI but add the disposable-name features Yahoo has. I wish I had a Yahoo! account to use, as my @live.com account started getting spammed like mad. With Yahoo!, I could just trash an expendable account such as username-1@yahoo.com, where username-tag@yahoo.com was the format and the individual -tag address can be trashed while the username address remains. I wish MSFT had that

I think the only good noticable features Y! Mail has are RSS feeds and IM. Also the ease of ability to send messages via e-mail, text, or IM.

Those should be integrated into Live Hotmail too.

Funny thing is, is that I always get spam from Y! Mail, but rarely ever from Live Hotmail. I don't know why. People keep saying Hotmail junk filtering is bad, but I don't find it that way.

I think a person receiving junk mail is due to telling strangers, posting up somewhere public, etc. Not necessarily the provider.

I think Google also have paid storage program for extra storage. "Google now offers a way to purchase more storage space to use with some Google services (currently Gmail and Picasa Web Albums). This extra storage acts as overflow when you run out of free storage space in either service"

And there's Paid Google  Premier Edition where one gets Email with up to 25 GB of storage per custom email address.