Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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.'"

5 of 262 comments (clear)

  1. Ads by PHAEDRU5 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    My God! Those ads really get in your face.

    I can only see so many half-page ads about going back to school to get a nursing degree.

    --
    668: Neighbour of the Beast
  2. ads by don'tyellatme · · Score: 5, Interesting

    i think i'll keep my text ads (and my sanity) thank you very much. that alone is enough that i'll never try it out.

  3. Been using it for a couple of months now. . . by n2art2 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    And I love it.

    Well I love it when I'm at work. because it works at work on my Windoz box. But it does not work on my Mac at home. I use firefox both at work and home (sometimes safari at home as well) and doesn't matter what browser I use at home cause it doesn't work. Now I did get an error message back when I first started using the beta, and it said something to the effect that Yahoo does not currently support Mail Beta on OS X, and that it would revert to standard mail, until further notice.

    So the biggest question is. . . Why Firefox on XP but not Firefox on OS X??? AND. . . With it being now publicly available, does it now work with OS X as well?

    Guess I'll find out when I get home.

    --
    Self proclaimed wannabe geek. You know how it is. Most of us who read this stuff probably fit in that category.
  4. Yahoo Fanboy by prothid · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This guy that submitted this appears to be a tad biased, even a Yahoo fanboy. There is a Yahoo category on his blog with over 40 entries, and no Google category. So, there's not a wonderfully balanced point of view here. I'd take his "verdict" with a grain of salt, flamebait at best.

    http://www.moskalyuk.com/blog/category/yahoo/

  5. No Unicode support by bertilow · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yahoo Mail is worthless. It can only handle mail in Latin 1 encoding.
    If a message uses Unicode (UTF-8), all non-ASCII characters are
    displayed completely wrong.

    They forgot about Unicode in a new e-mail application in 2006?
    Are they out of their minds?!

    Gmail on the other hand handles Unicode (writing and reading)
    as should every single application developed today.