Reason #21

Reason twenty-one is related to money. Plain and simple, I have no intentions of paying to use any email account unrelated to my ISP. Hotmail taunts me with automatic messages advertising extra features for, if I remember correctly, $19.95US/yr. As if I am going to pay Microsoft to bombard me with annoying flashing banner ads all over the screen! All of those extra features are available as standard with GMail, for free.