Hotmail Vs Gmail?

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I don't know if I'm being a little paranoid so I'll you decide. A friend of mine has a Gmail account, and after showing it me at work, I decided I wanted one too, 1Gb of storage is not to be sniffed at compared to the paltry 2Mb on offer at Hotmail.

So my friend fired off an acceptance email to my hotmail account so that I could set up my Gmail, (every Gmail account holder can invite 5 people to join Gmail). Imagine my horror that after 6 years of uninterrupted use, my hotmail inbox was mysteriously wiped out that same afternoon, everything was gone, including my old A+ and N+ exam result emails, (yeah I know but I kept them for nostalgia!) Of course I sent off an email to hotmail's "support" this was met with Micorsoft's now copyrighted silence. So is it just a coincidence? Or is it something more sinister?