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Only 25% of Yahoo Staff "Eat Their Own Dog Food"
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.'"
web mail for enterprise?
They'll discover quickly that those products hurt and they have an incentive to make them better.
FTFY. Yahoo mail. Abysmal.
Every time I go there on the web, I am told to upgrade to a Firefox that has been optimized for Yahoo, and then I get told to pick a new theme. Every damn time.
At least the quality is consistently 'neo', both for groups and email.
I actually use Yahoo Mail and have done for over ten years. It's always seemed like a good idea to me since I'll never use Yahoo for anything else (what else do they really do anyway?) while if I were to use something like GMail they'd be cross-referencing my emails with my searching habits with my Youtube viewing history and general browsing habits from the many many websites that use Google Ads.
Better to spread my info around into (relatively) remote morsels so that no one organisation knows everything about me.
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 Ihan any other option for a workplace.
by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 26, 2013 @09:41AM (#45521113)
Yes, tons of people use Outlook. It's leaps and bounds better than Yahoo mail or any duct-taped together, freetard solution.
Trolling as AC as well, I see?
I work at Google and I've never seen anyone here use anything besides gmail for corporate mail.
I know one who uses EMACS (Gnus, I think) for e-mail, but she's hardcore. And she still uses the web UI for many tasks.
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