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

Posted by Unknown on 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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  1. Wagging the dog. by DoofusOfDeath · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Another reasonable approach from might be to task, "How does our service need to change, in order for our own employees to want to use it?"

    1. Re:Wagging the dog. by game+kid · · Score: 5, Funny

      Expecting "reasonable" from Marissa Mayer's Yahoo is like expecting "class 1 laser emission" from Marisa Kirisame's Master Spark.

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    2. Re:Wagging the dog. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Another reasonable approach from might be to task, "How does our service need to change, in order for our own employees to want to use it?"

      The more appropriate phrase in this case should be: "Eat Their Own Dog Poo".

    3. Re:Wagging the dog. by SJHillman · · Score: 5, Informative

      My dog will eat any dog or cat poo except for his own.

    4. Re:Wagging the dog. by su5so10 · · Score: 5, Informative

      I work at Google and I've never seen anyone here use anything besides gmail for corporate mail.

    5. Re:Wagging the dog. by red+crab · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Really? I thought Yahoo! has always been in news, even before Mayers took over it, always for the wrong reasons; this piece of news being no exception.

  2. Mail? by JBMcB · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm sure the employee's reaction was the same as everyone else's: Yahoo still has email?

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    1. Re:Mail? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

      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.

  3. News for who? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "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."

    Individually the words make sense, but put them together and you can clearly see why Yahoo is where it is.

  4. Knowing what I know about corporate life... by sootman · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... why do I suspect it'll be the managers who are the last to be dragged, kicking and screaming, from Outlook?

    I use Yahoo mail and Outlook. Outlook definitely has its place, especially in a business. Tell me though, because I haven't looked: can Yahoo's calendar let you see everyone else's free time when inviting people to a meeting? As easily as Outlook does?

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  5. Re:People use outlook? by hairyfish · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'll go one further and say Exchange/Outlook is better than anything other app in it's class. I always hear people bashing Exchange/Outlook in here, but I never hear anyone say product x does it better. For Enterprise Email/Contacts/Tasks/Calendar/Collaboration the closest product is Lotus Notes and that truly sucks arse. So before you label me a shill, I'd like to hear about your replacement candidate. I have no connection to MS, I've just been down that path of finding competition and found nothing but donkeys (in this space).