Windows Live Mail Has a Philosophy?

As I go around Microsoft I ask teams "are you just gonna sell your participants/partners/users/customers down the river or are you gonna stand up for them?" Especially when someone is offering you money to do something anti-user? This week when I was interviewing the Hotmail Windows Live Mail team they told me about a decision they had made to reduce the number of advertisments on their service from two to one. Live.com just got a whole lot easier for me to evangelize. Does this matter? Windows Live Mail has 200 million unique accounts that have been signed into in the past 30 days. They block more than a billion spam messages every day. This is one of the most used Web Services in the world. Their new site design is working really well for me. Much nicer than the existing Hotmail. I love this team. Add to document.write("Del.icio.us") | Yahoo! My Web Technorati: Scobleizer blog. He works as Scobleizer