Reasons I hate IE:
No tabs
No mouse gestures
Crap cookie control
Crap server filtering
ActiveX
Poor security
Very poor security
Piss poor security (maybe I should point you to some of the vulns in IE which can instantly crash XP, or launch malicious code... the list of vulns is endless)
Bad Java implementation
No pop up control or referrer logging
Unstable
Sod all options for anything
It's the least HTML compliant browser there is
It's made by microsoft
But what's most galling is people who say it's the best browser even when they've tried (at most) one alternative - netscape, which is coincidentally the worst alternative.
Reasons I hate Hotmail:
Slow, ad-ridden site
Slow mailer daemons
Spam
Poor security
Horrible EULA which grants MS ownership of my accounts content
More spam
Clunky, bloated interface
It's continual nagging insistence that my browser isn't up to it, since MS coded the site to make it as difficult as possible for non-IE users to use
Intrusive cookies
It's run by microsoft
If you must have webmail (sigh), stick to a site like yahoo who actually get it right, and don't sell your email address to spammers.
On a sidenote, RedHat 8.0 rocks. Stable as a rock, AA throughout (including all the text), looks better than XP straight outta the box, and far more usable once you've plonked all the scripts in place.
Windows can **** off right now.
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And why aren't you using the e-mail provided by your ISP?
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I could do, but why should I? I don't want a
XXXX@zen.co.uk when I already have a
xxxx@lex.tv and a
xxxx@demolicious.org
The only reason I still keep my webmail accounts up are for chat purposes and using them as inboxes to direct all my spam/website memberships etc at so I can keep my proper email addresses free for proper email.
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it's not as fast as the main competition Netscape
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You're right. Despite all it has going for it (namely it being embedded into Windows and running all the time), IE is the slowest browser I have ever used. Netscape beats it by a shade, Mozilla razzes past it, and Opera, Galeon and Phoenix blow all of them away.
/me counts number of Microsoft products on my computer
= 0