alt Hacker NewsDid Hotmail offer email redirection at that time? I can't remember whether that sort of thing that would make it easy to switch away was offered.
Did Hotmail offer email redirection at that time? I can't remember whether that sort of thing that would make it easy to switch away was offered.
I don't remember that detail, but I do remember most people not treating their inbox as an archive at the time. So there was less friction to switch to gmail, and more reason to do so due to the "real time" ticking storage amount of gmail, which then became an archive (again for most people).