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Users Being Migrated To New Version of Hotmail

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the windows-live-inspires-confidence dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft has started work on migrating Hotmail users to a new version after testing the new system on select customers for almost two years. Microsoft stated in the article that more than 20 million users provided feedback to the new-look Hotmail. 'For now, Microsoft will give Hotmail users the option to continue using the old version if they don't want to switch to the upgraded version. However, at some point, everyone will be unilaterally migrated over to Windows Live Hotmail ... New users will be automatically signed up for Windows Live Hotmail but, like any user of the new service, they will get to choose from two user interfaces: a "classic" layout that closely resembles the old Hotmail; or the new interface, which was designed to look like Microsoft's Outlook e-mail and calendaring desktop application.'"

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  1. Hotmail features by sakdoctor · · Score: 4, Funny

    As long as they keep the 'deliver all mail to the trash' feature they can style it however they like.

  2. spin city by Speare · · Score: 5, Funny

    Steve: Hey, PR flack, the Hotmail group has been hemorrhaging users ever since I sugges... er, those idiots decided to "update" that user interface. How can we make that sound like a good thing?

    PR Flack: Easy, Mr. Ballmer. Voi la

    More than 20 million users provided feedback to the new-look Hotmail...
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  3. Re:20 Million users contributed feedback by fondacio · · Score: 4, Funny

    Right-click message, "mark as read", done. Unless you're on an Apple, of course...

  4. Microsoft's internal spam by Scrameustache · · Score: 4, Funny

    the new interface, which was designed to look like Microsoft's Outlook e-mail and calendaring desktop application Do these desktop application have the microsoft useless celebrity gossip as the main page when you load them?

    I'd LOVE it if I could be taken to my gorram emails when I log in, rather than to their fluff pseudo journalism hackfest until I find and click the 'inbox' button.
    Gawds, it's annoying enough to be taken there when you log out, but when you log in? Urge to kill... rising.
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    You can't take the sky from me...

  5. Re:Kudos to MS by cHALiTO · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's like there's a party in my mailbox and everyone's invited!


    Okay.. how much did they pay you for this?
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    "Luck is my middle name," said Rincewind, indistinctly. "Mind you, my first name is Bad." -- Terry Pratchett
  6. Re:That's a lot of feedback! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    And you know what Billg said about each user feedback? "That's the dumbest fucking idea I've heard since I've been at Microsoft."

  7. Re:From the article by macraig · · Score: 4, Funny

    "...at some point, everyone will be unilaterally migrated over to Windows Live Hotmail"

    What? How dare they! When did Google and Yahoo give 'em permission to do that?