Yeah, this interface looks just like Outlook or a million other email clients, for that matter. I don't really see why Yahoo needs to acquire this company to get the rights to use this kind of standard design. It's a little unusual for webmail, but it's certainly nothing original.
No, you're missing the point. Yahoo are buying Oddpost for the technology and skills that Oddpost represent, not because Oddpost looks like Outlook. Don't forget that the Oddpost is an application, not a website, (It just so happens to run in IE) and they can make it look however they want.
The userbase of Oddpost is tiny, so they couldn't care less about that.
At the end of the process, Oddpost will cease to exist, and the script (application) that the Oddpost programmers will produce will look more Yahoo! than Outlook.
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Yeah, this interface looks just like Outlook or a million other email clients, for that matter. I don't really see why Yahoo needs to acquire this company to get the rights to use this kind of standard design. It's a little unusual for webmail, but it's certainly nothing original.
No, you're missing the point. Yahoo are buying Oddpost for the technology and skills that Oddpost represent, not because Oddpost looks like Outlook. Don't forget that the Oddpost is an application, not a website, (It just so happens to run in IE) and they can make it look however they want.
The userbase of Oddpost is tiny, so they couldn't care less about that.
At the end of the process, Oddpost will cease to exist, and the script (application) that the Oddpost programmers will produce will look more Yahoo! than Outlook.