My personal email used to be a bell.net address and I used microsoft outlook.
I LOVE Outlook as I can use it like a sword, BUT, I grew to hate Bell and I wanted to stop being married to Bell because of an email address they gave me.
So I switched to gmail.
Gmail is a turd compared to MS outlook (as in the one that comes with Office). But having a gmail address allows me to switch internet providers whenever one starts to piss me off.
I also have several hotmail, which changed to live.ca, which is now all called outlook (not the office version) which I use for various emails when I don't want spam.