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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.'"
Yes, tons of people use Outlook. It's leaps and bounds better than Yahoo mail or any duct-taped together, freetard solution.
Marginally? Yeah, you've clearly never used either Yahoo mail or Outlook. You're just another faggot freetard.
Webmail is a trendy, attractive idea: it's also truly stupid. Every single implementation to date -- and yes, I've tried them all -- sucks. I could spend the next three hours typing in a litany of reasons why, from UI to standards compliance, security to features, but I presume that everyone with even a passing familiarity with email already knows this. So Yahoo's feeble attempts to coerce its employees into using their particular brand of suckage, while no doubt driven by an edict from above, run against the best interests of their own staff.
Which brings me to Outlook, the mail client of choice for the ignorant, the incompetent and the inferior. Nobody, and I do mean, NOBODY, of any worth would even consider lowering their professional standards this far. It speaks volumes about the very low quality of the personnel at Yahoo that they actually prefer this client over the many superior alternatives. That, in turn, explains in part why Yahoo's mail system is riddled with security holes and overrun by spammers, phishers, and abusers of all descriptions: there is nobody there intelligent enough to stop them.
So what this really comes down to is whether Yahoo personnel are using M$ or Yahoo garbage; I wonder if there are any whose feeble intelligence is sufficient to allow them to figure out that the only correct answer is "neither". There DO exist mail clients that -- while not perfect by any means -- are clearly, markedly better than either of these.