“Some Microsoft Hotmail users unable to check their email since last week got an unwelcome surprise today when they finally gained access to their accounts. Although their new mail was intact, their personal folders, address book entries and saved mail had been deleted. ….

The company says the problem with one of Hotmail’s servers affects less than one-half of 1 percent of its 67 million users.”

Let’s see, 0.005*67M = 335,000 users, if my math is right. So I’d still feel relatively more safe with Gmail even despite this. I’m sure that the team is also looking at ways to try to keep even this much from happening again.

GMail for me is way better (IMO) as it gives me less PrOn to delete everyday.