I think Yahoo mail needs alot of work to ever get back into competition. Even though i share my opinon with Chrono that Gmail > *
i do think hotmail has the ability to come back. The last wave has added alot of new features such as even more integration with msn messenger etc.
If they increase their storage to a point where it doesn't matter because its so high (like gmails) and optimise loading times etc i tihnk they have a good chance
. Theres also the fact that everyone knows about hotmail and no where near as many people know about gmail. That's always going to keep hotmail popular until gmail launches