I have 4 e-mail accounts... One is from my ISP, the other one is GMail and the two remaining are Hotmail... I have to say that Windows Live Hotmail sucks very hard. I have a 8Mb/s (DL) and 512Mb/s (UL) and it takes ages and ages to load. In an Hotmail account I have Windows Live Hotmail but in the other one I have the old Hotmail
I don't choose none of the options since my ISP is a mix of GMail and Hotmail that offers me 1GB of mail space, IMAP, POP3 and STMP.