I am very afraid of being automatically upgraded to outlook.  I use Google Chrome since I have had problem with Explorer 8 since 2011 I have Vista.  Crashes constantly and too aggravating.  Chrome is very basic but rarely crashes. I use explorer only for things I cant do on Chrome or Fire fox.  I do think it is a shame I have to use all 3 to do what I used to do on explorer alone.  

I use hotmail as my primary, I have a google account for subscriptions such as pintrest and diet/recipe accounts and a yahoo account for sites that make you sign up for a 1 time event Basically this is my Junk mail with permission.  Friends have been suggesting I switch google as primary transfer all my saved e-mails to that account so I don't lose everything if I am forced to switch.  When almost 90% of my log ins are me e-mail address either way it is going to be a pain.  

If I am going to have to change over 300 log ins I would like to start now. 
I am new to Macbook. My problem is that I have attempted to open my hotmail account, without success. the page format appears all wrong and if I click on Inbox, Deleted, etc, etc nothing happens. I was advised to change security settings to Always Use HTTPS When I Sign into Hotmail, but this has made no difference.
Any suggestions?
Phil
Since I changed my password on google chrome for my e-mail, my iphone won't let me in to see my e-mail even though I use the same
password.
I have a new desktop running on Windows 8 and IE 10. I can access my Hotmail Inbox but once I'm in there, there's a yellow bar at the top with the message "We can't connect to Hotmail right now. Please try again later." So I'm unable to open my emails. When I access my Hotmail with Google Chrome, there's no such problem and I can read my emails. HOWEVER, with Google Chrome, I can't send emails! When I try to compose a new email, I can type in the address and subject lines, but when I try to type in the text of my email, the cursor disappears and I am unable to type anything. This is weird, can anyone enlighten me? Most appreciated.
Hotmail seems to be dead in Chrome - The inbox opens but there is no funtionality
I cannot download google chrome nor firefox. I have a mac that has  the OSX 10.5 operating system. I cannot access my hotmail account as of a couple of months now.
I need to know what is going on with microsoft and the dropping off of a client that has used hot mail now for 10 years. And can this be fixed?
thanks, Maggie
Hotmail is no longer functioning properly in Safari, and I read in the forum here that Chrome or Firefox, but I can't get those to work, either. Any suggestions, or must I switch providers?
I use the account daily and noticed after running a separate program and coming back to Hotmail (via Chrome) a pop up message saying something about "you must select a message to perform this action" kept repeatedly appearing.  I shut down Chrome and now my inbox is empty.  All files in folders are intact.

It looks like some kind of cleanup was happening but I didn't select this option.  Any help?  
I tried all your suggested cures.  They didn't work.  I have to switch browsers to check my mail.  A real pain.  When will you fix your "improvement?"
no se abren los links con google chrome