yeah! It's true, it makes me get angry all the time i want to down load something, worst when i want to have a video conference it's awful. I think g mail is too useful at the time you want to download something, it is faster.
i have to confess i have been getting troubles getting video calls in hotmail , the communication is bad. Talking about downloading it is the lowest one.
I was all for Hotmail, mainly because I have had that email for many, many years. After that last update... let's call it the "Gmail Wannabe" update, I decided to start making the painful move elsewhere. I have both Yahoo and Gmail. I have to say I like Gmail the best, but use Yahoo for my personal email. Filtering in Gmail is just as awesome as it gets. Hotmail's filtering was horrible. I will miss one feature of hotmail though... being able to easily switch between different email accounts. I wish Gmail would add that feature. Would make my life so much easier.