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Yahoo! Mail Beta Goes Public

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the come-and-get-it dept.

prostoalex writes "After months of being tested via limited beta, Yahoo! Mail Beta, developed after Oddpost acquisition, is now available to the world. From the review: 'The new Yahoo Mail Beta is touted as being as functional as a desktop email client (such as Outlook). Other new features include an integrated calendar timeline (including mashups with Yahoo Maps), drag and drop e-mail organization, message preview, tabs for messages, plus an integrated RSS reader.' Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg was using Yahoo! Mail Beta back in September of last year and wrote the following: 'I've been comparing the new version of Yahoo Mail, which claims to be the leader in Web mail, with Gmail, the challenger Yahoo most fears. My verdict: The new Yahoo Mail is far superior to Gmail. Yahoo more closely matches the desktop experience most serious email users have come to expect. Gmail, by contrast, is quirky and limited. Its only advantage is its massive free storage, which exceeds what most people will ever need.'"

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  1. Re:So... by grammar+fascist · · Score: 5, Funny

    Google is a classic case of a company with one tool in their box albeit more of a power hammer than a common or garden hammer

    It's a... Swiss Army Hammer.

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  2. Re:So... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    ...simultaneously be in more than one "folder" simultaneously...
    Can you flag them as part of the Department of Redundancy Department?
  3. Setting the bar pretty low. by Medievalist · · Score: 3, Funny
    as being as functional as a desktop email client (such as Outlook)
    So, how's it compare with a decent email system, such as Scalix? Or a desktop client that's not a single-OS, closed source virus farm, such as Thunderbird?

    Comparing to outlook, man, that's like comparing your product to a painful rectal itch.

  4. The name by JourneyExpertApe · · Score: 3, Funny

    They're calling it Yahoo! Mail Beta? That's the name they came up with? Man, Google should sue them for trademark infringement. They've been calling their web apps that for years. ;)

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  5. Re:So... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    "garden hammer"

    You garden with a hammer?

  6. Re:Yahoo Fanboy by dylan_- · · Score: 2, Funny
    Or you could just do the google thing and find this bio as the first link.

    Alex Moskalyuk is a full-time Technical Yahoo!...
    Wow...using Google to search Yahoo...that's really rubbing it in! ;)
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