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Gmail's Mic Drop April Fool Backfires Horribly Costing People Their Jobs (telegraph.co.uk)
An anonymous reader quotes a report on The Telegraph: Google is facing a fierce backlash after introducing a new tool for April Fools' Day that has cost some people potential jobs. The new Gmail Mic Drop button, which sits next to the normal send button, ends an email thread forever by muting all future replies to the sender, and firing off a gif of a minion 'mic dropping' at the same time. After an immediate backlash the feature was taken down early on Friday morning. Some people using it had failed to see the funny side, saying that by accidentally pressing the button instead of simply sending the email, they have appeared rude or unprofessional, in some cases costing them jobs.
I really don't agree. Gmail is stable and just works all the time. If your goal is to always have access to your email, rolling your own email server will be many times worse at accomplishing that. If your goal is security, you are probably 100% right.
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.
Seriously, free webmail is unprofessional.
I am guessing that you are not aware that many universities use GMail for business under agreements where Google will actually manage the email for the university domain i.e. my university email address is essentially a GMail account that I can access through GMail on the web or via IMAP. We have an agreement with Google which means that they agree not to mine our email for advertizing and we don't get ads displayed on the Google pages. They also gave us unlimited Google Drive space as well although I suspect if I tried dumping petabytes of ATLAS LHC data there it might turn out to have a limit at some point.