Hotmail new look - Page 2

yqk · 29-07-2010, 04:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Chilling_Silence

Dragging and dropping is easier than selecting from a drop-down menu? Sure, maybe, but your second point is relatively moot when the spam filter is as good as Gmails

Have used both Hotmail and Gmail and found that I prefered hotmail compared to Gmail.

Hotmail is fine for what I need it to do.

nmercer · 29-07-2010, 07:00 PM

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Originally Posted by yqk

Has anybody seen the new look that hotmail has been given?

Looks horrible to me. Prefer the old layout of hotmail

I'm curious to know exactly what it is you don't like in the new Hotmail layout

Could you please explain/describe?

yqk · 29-07-2010, 10:15 PM

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Originally Posted by nmercer

I'm curious to know exactly what it is you don't like in the new Hotmail layout

Could you please explain/describe?

The fact that it doesn't work with older versions of Internet Explorer and Firefox.

Can read emails but not compose an email.

GameJunkie · 29-07-2010, 10:21 PM

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Originally Posted by yqk

The fact that it doesn't work with older versions of Internet Explorer and Firefox.

Can read emails but not compose an email.

works fine for me when i use it in FF, regardless of whatever version it is.

can't compose emails either????? really??

and in any case gmail is vastly superior to anything else out there

yqk · 29-07-2010, 10:24 PM

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Originally Posted by GameJunkie

can't compose emails either????? really??

Can't click in the area where you type the text.

GameJunkie · 29-07-2010, 10:27 PM

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Originally Posted by yqk

Can't click in the area where you type the text.

i can just fine.

nmercer · 30-07-2010, 04:43 AM

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Originally Posted by GameJunkie

works fine for me when i use it in FF, regardless of whatever version it is.

can't compose emails either????? really??

and in any case gmail is vastly superior to anything else out there

vastly superior? have you tried the new Hotmail yet?

GameJunkie · 30-07-2010, 10:19 AM

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Originally Posted by nmercer

vastly superior? have you tried the new Hotmail yet?

yes i have

nmercer · 30-07-2010, 04:32 PM

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Originally Posted by GameJunkie

yes i have

cool, I wonder if you tried any of the new features

I think it really is superior to Gmail now

especially with
Conversation view that can be turned off
Active Views that let you view content like Flickr & Youtube from within Hotmail
attach up to 200 50Mb photos to an email (yes that is 10GB)
Office Web Apps that gives you online versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote built into Hotmail

http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_l...nal-email.aspx

Chilling_Silence · 30-07-2010, 05:51 PM

Not wanting to nitpick, I'm sure millions of hotmail users are grateful that it's caught up with the pack, but it does leave me wondering:

Why would anybody want to turn off conversation view? There's a reason why Apple have made it standard in iOS4 and why you can (apparently? I've not used it first hand) use it in Hotmail too. There's basically no reason *not* to want conversation-threaded emails...

10GB emails? Geez I can see exchange admins everywhere loving that ... ? I thought 10MB was the general limit most companies have for email? Except, they're not actually being emailed are they, but just linked to your Skydrive :-/
Still, 25GB of online storage with Skydrive is generous of Microsoft. Google only offer ~8GB I think for Gmail?

Embedded YouTube, UPS tracking and easy Doc Editing is nice, but still just catch-up