Outrageous.  First it took them FOREVER to come through on their promise to deliver 2 GB email accounts in the first place – my wife waited 3 or 4 months for her PAID account to get converted from the time they said it would happen “immediately”, and a year or more for her unpaid accounts. 

And now we see clear, damned-hard-to-refute evidence of how they’re not even providing a reliable mail delivery (let alone storage) service?

Hotmail Fails To Deliver Up To 81% Of All Attachment Emails

I can’t wait to see how they treat the stuff you put in their “reliable online storage services” – I sure ain’t gonna rely on Windows Live to backup my photos or documents.  I mean, how many of them would just “disappear” after six months of inactivity (or even just randomly, when no one’s looking)?