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re: New Windows Live Hotmail arrives…

Tero — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:59:39 GMT

> > We still need IMAP

> Honestly, I don't see the point.

I don't see how anyone could get by with these awful AJAXed candy-coloured lollipop UI's that look, feel and act like a child's toy. Seriously. AJAX seems like the latest excuse for making bad UI's. Do the developers actually use these things? I've been let to believe Google developers do use GMail. Maybe this is why it is the least bad of the popular webmail UI's. It is also the least toy-like, and thus, ah, also the least exciting, the least rewarding as a plaything, if one believes all the reviews.

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DRWAM — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:14:15 GMT

Sharkster, if you don't have Exchange, you can use gmail calender. Gmail has a utility that does two syncing with Outlook calendar and works great, allowing you to choose interval syncing [every hour or minutes, etc...]. Also, there is an iPhone app called Saisuke for $10 that is a separate calendar app which does use Apple's calender. It looks pretty nice and I may buy it. It works with the touch too.

www.saysoftware.net/.../SaiSukeTop_E.html

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Waethorn — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:22:11 GMT

"We still need IMAP"

Honestly, I don't see the point.

It's the same as the "leave messages on server" option in most POP3-supported email programs, except that you can read, delete, and synchronize at a later time when a connection allows.

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shark47 — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:56:54 GMT

"We still need IMAP and iPhone support [all Live services]."

I will too, when I get my iPod Touch delivered this week. I thought IzyMail looked OK, but the damn thing is not free.

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DRWAM — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:28:23 GMT

"They removed the "Check Mail" button. That irks me. "

"Maybe it's like GMail now."

I thought it was just me, not able to find it!

Thanks.

We still need IMAP and iPhone support [all Live services].

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Waethorn — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:57:02 GMT

"Waethorn, what exactly is a women's conditioner?

Does it make women soft, full of body and shiny? :D"

I sure hope so....

(don't forget "bouncy"!)

re: New Windows Live Hotmail arrives…

shark47 — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:51:58 GMT

"They removed the "Check Mail" button. That irks me. "

Maybe it's like GMail now.

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treestman — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:58:04 GMT

They removed the "Check Mail" button. That irks me.

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lotsamystuff — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:06:19 GMT

"@LotsaWaethorn - Check your spelling...Are you talking about the ladies[sic] hair removal product..."

I'm no Waethorn. And Waethorn is no lady.

Sorry to drop a [sic] bomb on you, but you brought that one on yourself.

:-) <-----the all-forgiving SMILE of forgiveness.

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gorath — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:41:14 GMT

Waethorn, what exactly is a women's conditioner?

Does it make women soft, full of body and shiny? :D

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Tero — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:35:28 GMT

"Oops...since we are on spelling here, I should have used the possessive lady's rather than the plural ladies. My apologies.

--tayme"

You ought to have used the possessive plural ladies'.

What comes to Hotmail, the more interesting question here is whether the thing actually works now. Or to put it another way, will the new Hotmail lose less mail than the old one? And could there be a day in the yet unforeseeable future when Hotmail would not lose a single message from a trusted-as-spam-free contact? You know, it would work as an email service. That would be something!

I doubt that. Hence we still need real email service providers with fast IMAP, reliable message delivery, better spam tools, filters, aliases etc. Free* just doesn't buy quality.

* = Of course, nothing is really free, ever. Either one pays money or watches advertisement.

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Waethorn — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:21:26 GMT

"Are you talking about the ladies hair removal product"

At least my name doesn't sound like women's conditioner....

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subzerohitman721 — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:15:10 GMT

I look foward to checking it out as I've been a long time Hotmail user.

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Ocean — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:55:53 GMT

Interesting comments from the blogosphere:

>>Microsoft is dying from the inside, and the folks sucking it dry have zero motivation to change things. It's working out pretty damn well for them.<<

minimsft.blogspot.com/.../compensatory-arrangements-of-certain.html