Only 25% of Yahoo Staff "Eat Their Own Dog Food"

Posted by Unknown on Monday November 25, 2013 @12:30PM from the ms-outlook-is-godzilla dept.

nk497 writes "Only 25% of Yahoo staff have obeyed the company's request to 'eat their own dog food' and switch to Yahoo Mail, a colorful internal memo has revealed. The leaked email, acquired by All Things Digital, implores staff to move over to the corporate version of Yahoo's webmail system, gently lambasting staff who refuse to part with Microsoft Outlook. The message goes on to take a swipe at what appears to be Yahoo employees' preferred mail client, Microsoft Outlook, describing it as 'anachronism of the now defunct 90s PC era, a pre-web program written at a time when NT Server terrorized the data center landscape with the confidence of a T-Rex born to yuppie dinosaur parents who fully bought into the illusion of their son's utter uniqueness because the big-mouthed, tiny-armed monster infant could mimic the gestures of The Itsy-Bitsy Pterodactyl.'"

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Re:Wagging the dog. by SJHillman · 2013-11-25 13:10 · Score: 5, Informative

My dog will eat any dog or cat poo except for his own.
Re:Wagging the dog. by su5so10 · 2013-11-25 13:21 · Score: 5, Informative

I work at Google and I've never seen anyone here use anything besides gmail for corporate mail.
Re:People use outlook? by sexconker · 2013-11-25 13:24 · Score: 3, Informative

I think most of Yahoo's problems stem from the fact that the hire programmers that use Outlook?
Outlook is terrible.
It's still leaps and bounds better than any other option for a workplace.