Still Use Hotmail? Now You Can Use It to Manage Gmail

As someone who still has an AOL email (yes, I am one of the 2 people under 65 who didn’t dump my old email address for Google), I don’t find it impossible to believe that Hotmail is still the most popular web email provider.

Though many people have sworn by Gmail since it first came out with 2GB of storage space, meaning that you’d never have to remember to delete emails from that one friend who always forwards crazy chain letters. Hotmail and Yahoo responded by offering bigger mailboxes, then Google put the competition to an end by offering unlimited space.

Still, changing email addresses can be enough of a pain that extra space isn’t worth the hassle. After a while, occasional email recipients get lumped into the same address book as mom and dad, who still have to be manually separated from work related emailers, and let’s not forget the alerts for the various local deals, sample sale sites and sales notices from any website you’ve ordered from in the past 5 years.

Some people pick up an extra address for a specific purpose, but after a while you have 5 different addresses to check in on and it all starts to become too much. Hotmail’s hoping that you’ll start to use their interface for all of your email addresses. {Mashable} Google and Yahoo have allowed you to manage multiple email addresses through their interfaces for a while now, but with 350 million users, Hotmail is hoping that users who’ve tried the other options still prefer to use their interface for management.

It’s easy to forget about email with social networking and the future of mobile always in the headlines, and not many widely adopted innovations. Still, email is the one application that almost anyone online checks on a daily basis.