Yahoo! Acquires Oddpost

weiyuent writes "We all know the arrival of Gmail has initiated a new round of competition amongst the major webmail providers. Well, Yahoo! has acquired Oddpost and will be integrating Oddpost's amazing interface to strengthen its offerings. One might wonder though how to reconcile Oddpost's MSIE requirement with Yahoo!'s (thus far) cross-platform approach. Oh well, at least it will likely put an end to Oddpost's exasperating attempt to be cute in their communication."

Comments

Hotmail

[powerpuffgirls]

Based on Microsoft's recently move to compete in search engine, I wonder why it doesn't do more in Hotmail? Does it think it has secured enough user base to ignore new comers?

Oh by the way, if Google has gmail, MS introduce hmail, Apple gives you imail, Sun introduces jmail... :)

Re:Hotmail

[AvantLegion]

>> Oh by the way, if Google has gmail, MS introduce hmail, Apple gives you imail, Sun introduces jmail... :)

And Excite brings you "email" and skyrockets back into relevance!

So that's what an amazing interface is?

[Anonymous Coward]

Looks a heck of a lot like Outlook to me. I didn't know Slashdot posters were in a habit of flattering Microsoft developers.

Re:For sure.

[UnanimousCoward]

Too bad you didn't write it in an evening and sell it to Yahoo! then. :-)

Re:Difference: Yahoo Mail Works

[Senjutsu]

Why is it that the ongoing systemic outages on GMail are not reported here?

Because "Breaking News: Beta Software Has Occasional Reliability Issues" is more a subject for Duh Magazine than for /.

Re:Er... huh?

[corian]

Anyone want to take a stab at explaining to me why Oddpost is so amazing?

Because this Slashdot story is actually an advertisement in disguise. Shhhh!

Re:Mozilla support is coming

[toopc]

I'm assuming either Google will fix gmail, or Apple will fix safari.

Yes...it can be hard to place blame when Microsoft isn't an option.

One solution

[CBob]

Is to /. the site. Yep, it's refusing connections as of 5 mins ago