Yahoo is great as company, one of the main values is Groups and Pixcar account that now boosts to 1TB that is largest in the free market. Gmail, One of my long time main accounts as they had great room, labels and filtering system, also you can import other email accounts in to it, also they have basic picture gallery system with face detection and internet based file storage and office tools like excel. Also one of the world largest newsgroup system, email alerts and well, seriously ton of other services you can add in premium accounts. Besides they also want to own the world so they are on it. Also te +pluss portal that seems to getting things right after puzz and Orkut they still have. Hotmail / Livemail / Outlook One small jump for Microsoft but great step forward to email users of old service they had before. Also email importing, facebook and Skype integrating (you can chat in these from inside Outlook), also file storage and internet based office. They also have their own small Live portal with groups but still can not be compared with yahoo groups and epic Newsgroup system that Mr. Google build a web front end. They do have SkyDrive like google have gDrive but the amout of emails one can store seems be be to little for me still (they will soon upgrade it to shine next to Yahoo for sure.) So yeah, And the looks i think you might like Hotmail more, you can also make many email aliases there (as in gmail you can as well but its a bit different...) (the looks can be changed, a little right now but a lot in future... but in the end its all about what company profile and contributions to human kind you like the most)