<p>I'll admit, I haven't been very nice to Microsoft since I moved to Seattle a few months ago.</p><p>*See alsoWindows 8 Phone: 4 Things to Expect</p><p>But maybe it's because they're kind of like family, a little brother to pick on at dinner. After all, I sit here writing on a Windows operated PC and this morning logged onto my Hotmail account to check my personal email. You read that right: My Hotmail account.</p><p>The fact that I've stuck it out with Hotmail has caught no small amount of grief. It's given friends an opening to extol the virtues of Gmail - a deathly boring thing to be extolled upon, let me tell you - and an IT guy once literally guffawed (sort of a g-u-u-u-f) when I told him my personal email address.</p><p><a href="http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2012/09/hotmails_back_punks.php">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://www.sbwire.com/press-releases/disk-doctors-recommend-ms-outlook-2012-for-spam-free-and-ad-less-inbox-165920.htm">Disk Doctors Recommend MS Outlook 2012 for Spam-Free and Ad-Less Inbox</a> (SBWire (press release))</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?pz=1&ned=us&ncl=dm0lJsSmSUmepjMWuOD-SDlVgivdM">2 additional articles.</a></p>