I don't really use my live account much. I made it because I had to. I much prefer the email experience with Gmail. I have my email, calendar, and contacts all synced with Gmail and it work awesome.
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Just out of curiosity, how were you forced into opening a Live account?
Can you access the web-base market (to buy things) and the web version of 'my phone' (or whatever they call it) without a live account?
I honestly don't know as I've had a Hotmail account since it's birth. Logically, it would make sense to have a Hotmail/Live account considering you're purchasing a phone/platform that relies heavily on those services.
The benefit is giving Google the finger. Had to, sorryIf I get a wp is there any benefit to switch from gmail to live?
As far as I can tell, the built in email app also doesn't delete Gmail messages properly, it just removes the inbox label. I manually move mails to the deleted items folder now.