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Preview of New MSN Hotmail
An anonymous reader writes "Here is a Preview of a new MSN Hotmail system, using AJAX. Currently in Beta testing." Most interesting is how the user interface more closely resembles a traditional local application. It's definitely a big step in that direction.
See below for attempts at justifying why Gmail is still better, despite anything Microsoft throw at us!
Come on, this is just too predictable.
It acts a lot like Outlook too! Now you can get email viruses from webmail!
"It is the stillest words which bring the storm. Thoughts that come with doves' footsteps guide the world."
...never looked sooo good.
In light of the previous thread about annoying adverts, I particularly like the feature where you can't actually see the body of the email because there are too many adverts on the page (eg see http://www.winsupersite.com/images/reviews/mail_be ta_preview_05.jpg)
The world has changed and we all have become metal men.
" I see this as a validation of biodiversity and competition"
Biodiversity? So, MS really is the Borg, or does Kahuna have organic components?
Technodiversity. Product diversity. Definitely (hopefully) not biodiversity.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
"On the other hand, it's still early in Kahuna's development, and I don't recommend that anyone switch their production email account over to this service quite yet"
Hahaha, yeah right, if I have ANY alternatives to the HORRIBLE webmail interface that hotmail is right now, I'll take it, even if it's worse. You know why? Cause it can't get any worse, it can only wrap around and become better.
So I can take advantage of these features if I have my blind, crippled pet monkey read out the raw HTML to me while I poke toothpicks into my eyeballs then?
Bogtha Bogtha Bogtha
It was bad enough when they started putting IE inside Outlook windows. Now they've managed to put Outlook inside IE. Fantastic...
So it looks slightly cleaner. What's with those ugly picture ads still? So you can drag and drop email into folders. Big frakkin' deal: Gmail automatically sorts my mail into folders for me without me having to drag them. It has an info bar that's supposed to protect me from phishing, spam and virus attachments? Well woop-dee-frakkin'-doo, I still think I'd have to block all mail from everyone I didn't manually add to my list if their filter isn't much, much much better. Etc etc etc.
This really reminds me of your stereotypical "ex-boyfriend". He had been a rather horrid human being, but I stuck with him for a while, out of past affection. The relationship keeps getting worse and worse. Until finally I met someone better who gets all the basics of a relationship right before showing me anything "fancy".
The new guy didn't bug me with crap, responds to what I need faster, present interesting information/messages to me in a clearer way, and even come up with a few surprises I didn't know was capable for a boyfriend. So months and even years later, the ex comes back and tells me he's changed. That he does this and that now. That he "is the rebirth of " boyfriend-dom.
Right.
No, really, I'm not bitter...
> > Microsoft coder bites can be very painful you know.
> May I have your sisters' phone number?
No, reeli! When she got bit, she was hacking her initials onto the Google front page from the sharpened end of an original clicky IBM keyboard given to her by Bill Gates - her brother-in-law - a Redmond software executive and star of many Microsoft products: "H0tmail Hands of a Redm0nd S0ftware Executive", "M0nkey B0ys of Passion", "The Neverending Devel0pers of Steve Ballmer".
Are you still sure you want that phone number?
Yes! Under the "View" menu, select the item that says "Source" or "Page Source".
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.