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What If Gmail Had Been Designed by Microsoft?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the thank-god-we-could-all-standardize-on-ie7 dept.

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'.""

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  1. the reason you have to put the @ by SirSmiley · · Score: 4, Informative

    The reason you put the username@hotmail.com is because there is also msn.com msn.ca for the ISP subscribers... hotmail.com hotmail.co.uk etc etc...would be rather limiting if you could only use your nickname and not have different domains......it is probably the worlds biggest web mail service...

    why is this news? slllooww news day

  2. Re:They have design a webmail site... by ChrisMP1 · · Score: 5, Informative

    They scan your emails and show non-obtrusive targeted ads off to the side, whereas Hotmail floods your inbox with crap mail, obscuring the mail that you actually want to see.

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  3. Re:They have design a webmail site... by Titoxd · · Score: 4, Informative

    1998 called, and it wants its FUD back. Hotmail does ask you whether you would like to get newsletters; however, you can always click through that page, and you never get anything. I've used Hotmail for at least five years, and Gmail for a couple, and I've never had a problem with neither one sending me crap I don't like.

    FUD is bad, regardless of whether it is pro-Google FUD, or anti-Google FUD.