Sorry 5 years. My Bad.

Due to the pure idiotic quality of some of the pro-MS comments(esp regarding the whole Italian MS Anti competitive thing ) , im convinced at least half of them are either directly employed or funded by microsoft.
Well, hey, thats why we have these monopolies isnt it?

"Gmail account that I have had for over 10 yrs"

How?
Gmail was launched on 1st April 2004. It's been less than 6 years.

"my Gmail account that I have had for over 10 yrs"

Right. You've had a GMail account for over ten years. Gotcha.

How long you had an iPhone? 8 years? You got a PS3 before PS2 was out? And that latest tablet from Apple ... already got OS XII on it?

Sure Google, you guys lose my Gmail account that I have had for over 10 yrs and give my spot of space to cloud computing. If you can't come out with an iron clad guaranty you won't lose the info, who the hell is going to store any thing of value on your servers. Because you gave me Gmail for free I have no right to get pissed off at you.
All this free Gmail, Docs, etc is to keep people on your servers for ads inserted unintrusively. Reminds me of getting people hooked on Portals of the early internet years.