Comment by Dwedit
3 years ago
When you get an email address from someone, you need assurance that they'll be around in 5+ years. Hotmail and Gmail aren't going anywhere.
3 years ago
When you get an email address from someone, you need assurance that they'll be around in 5+ years. Hotmail and Gmail aren't going anywhere.
When Gmail launched, people were writing this exact same comment about how Yahoo and Hotmail aren't going anywhere.
Anecdata: My Yahoo and Hotmail address are still up and running.
Google was a $23 billion at the time they launched Gmail.
Not sure why an email service from Yahoo or Microsoft - which were not the primary focus of either company's business - would be more likely to persist.
My Hotmail account from the 90s is still receiving emails