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What If Gmail Had Been Designed by Microsoft?
caluml writes "There is a humourous look at "What would happen if Microsoft had designed GMail". Gems include: "Another security measurement we'll add is that you won't be able to log-in with just username anymore but are required to enter the full username@gmail.com. Furthermore, we will change the browser URL from 'http://gmail.microsoft.com/' to the more professional looking 'http://by114w.bay114.gmail.live.com/mail/mail.aspx?rru=home'.""
I think they meant Yahoo.
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Another one of these eh?
Sort of like if Microsoft designed the iPod box?
Hey, now that we had this, Can we have a "What would Slashdot look like if someone artistic designed it" Page?
_ _ _ Go for the eyes Boo! GO FOR THE EYES!
... there were no more what if stories?
Another modern classic: What if Google search had been designed by the guys behind Windows Search
"Award for the Silliest User Interface: Windows Search"
I laugh at your feeble attempt at a troll.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
1) Strange, fixed "color" scheme;
2) Cluttered, but oddly comforting and hyperconfigurable, user interface (except the colors);
3) Random in-joke-based poll every 18 months;
4) Almost usable search engine;
5) People who want to contact you first email editors who then "approve" or "reject" incoming emails based on their personal taste;
6) Arbitrarily assign other users to read your email and act as moderators;
7) AC option gives spammers a fair shot (albeit at a lower mod base) -- don't forget to check AC before emailing something really stupid like this post;
You know, it just might work!
Don't forget the "I am willing to test Gmail's new mail interface" checkbox that brings up a clusterfuck of an interface designed by a retarded 11 year old. Although, admittedly, it has improved since they first put the checkbox there.
This guy's the limit!
Every new e-mail would be larger than the one before, open slower, and eventually stop supporting your printer.
Oh! And spam would open itself for you!
*Oh, and yes, I do program using MS. Eh, it's a living
there were no interesting stories, so someone posted some tired microsoft-bashing article instead?
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I guess, but doesn't Microsoft's hotmail system also "scan your emails" to put them into TCP packets?
is too complicated for the author.
I am very small, utmostly microscopic.
Dear Consumer,
We considered that, but then we'd have to add a set of radio buttons there that say "Use the same domain name as in the URL" and "Always use the domain name: ___", and then we'd have add a "Remember my answer (in a cookie)" checkbox, and then a *second* checkbox to ask if you want to remember the setting of the first checkbox. (I think most people do not realize how difficult it is to write good software.) It did get through testing but the marketing people complained it took too much space away from possible banner ads.
In the end, forcing people to type "@hotmail.com" a lot isn't a bad thing: we're reminding them about our great brand. Whenever people spend time on Microsoft sites but thinking about cool brands we bought like "Hotmail" instead of losing brands we built like "Microsoft", that's a win for us.
- Love,
The Hotmail Team
One of the links on the original hotmail page reads "The John C. Dvorak Excellence Award". *shudder*
What did they do? Make it easier to turn the checkbox back off?