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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. And what if Abble designed it by El+Lobo · · Score: 1, Troll
    Well, if Abble had designed it:

    * It will be named iMail (duh)

    * It would tell you that you need to sign for .mak to use it (duh)

    * It would have only one button (which would do ant function, receive, send, attach)

    * It would be that "kool and pretty"(TM) that instead on a mail site you,d though that you are in teletubby land with silver colors

    * It would have iPhone compatibility but forget about the other players

    * It would save "It just works" even when you have no ineternet connection

    * When some problems arise, they would , of course , blame MS.

    * Everybody on /. would praise it even if they limited it to 1 MB/month amd send the letters DRMed :-)

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    1. Re:And what if Abble designed it by powermacx · · Score: 0, Troll

      No need to guess, this is what it would have looked like:
      http://www.mac.com/1/webmail.html

  2. Re:Slashdot by Joe+Jay+Bee · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yes, but the editors would rather like to keep Slashdot a purely metaphorical shitheap.

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  3. sorry, is this digg? by octal666 · · Score: 0, Troll

    or slashdot? what kind of new was that?

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