[kingu]

My condolences.

It's a total breath of fresh air. Our company e-mail accounts are so swarmed by spam due to their ancient age that cleaning it out kept two computers and half my company bandwidth occupied 24/7. Google does it for us for free, it has saved tremendous amounts of time, effort and costs - if that deserves condolences, than I'll take them every day!

[Lunatic Fringe]

swarmed by spam due to their ancient age

You need to fire your IT guys. Spam can easily be filtered on any email system, yes even Microsoft Exchange. We use Exchange and after I purchased and installed Brightmail, our rate of spam hitting the Inbox dropped significantly.

[Terpfen]

It definitely deserves condolences, from a design and features standpoint. Without getting into a rant, let's just say they could do GMail much better, and with a UI that didn't completely blow.

From what you've described, anything would've been better than your corporate network.

[mgstarr]

I did a test between Gmail, Yahoo and Excite on spam and there's no contest. Gmail is the only intelligent one and Excite hasn't a brain at all. Yahoo is somewhere in the middle.

The people who poo-poo Google either haven't a clue or have a vested interest in dying technology. And I'm not singing the praises of Google, nor do I care about the stock, but the business concept and entrepreneurship is invigorating. This is what drives America folks, not crumbling old tech. You'd think conservatives would appreciate that.