Maintaining your list of contacts is one of the main speed bumps in the process of switching e-mail providers, however moving your entire contacts list from Hotmail to Gmail is easier than you think. In just a few you clicks, you can export your address book from Hotmail and import it into Gmail.
“Gmail: Import Contacts from Hotmail” is an illustrated guide to moving your contacts from Microsoft’s webmail service to Google’s. Hotmail features an option to export your contacts list to a .csv file, which can then be read by Gmail — just download your contacts from one service and upload the to the other.
