"New" hotmail interface

[teuchter]

Just went to check my hotmail account and they've changed the interface again.

I don't understand how it is supposed to be better.

They have removed, for example, the "check for new messages" button that was quite handy.

And they seem to have increased the type size so that less information fits onto the screen and I feel like I'm in primary school.

 

[fractionMan]

get gmail already.

 

[subversplat]

I hate it. I usually have my surreptitious browsing open in a 5" by 5" window in the bottom of the screen at work and now I can't see any of my inbox

 

[gabi]

Just went to check my hotmail account and they've changed the interface again.

I don't understand how it is supposed to be better.

They have removed, for example, the "check for new messages" button that was quite handy.

And they seem to have increased the type size so that less information fits onto the screen and I feel like I'm in primary school.

Click on 'switch to classic' - itll take you back to your late 90s style.

 

[teuchter]

Click on 'switch to classic' - itll take you back to your late 90s style.

I think they've removed that option too.

 

[gabi]

Not on mine? Maybe they're phasing it.

 

[trevhagl]

the new "faster" hotmail

Is it just me or is it a crock of shit that freezes every time you use it, makes you scroll along every time you add an email, takes 3 times as long to send bulk mail

....and where can you email the fuckers to complain?

 

[5t3IIa]

Click here to email a complaint to Hotmail http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=269260

 

[trevhagl]

The whole thing is a nightmare, big left margin that you hardly use, so you can't see ALL your email, it freezes every time you try to click into it, when you try to bulk mail you gotta click on group heading then get all the names up in the "send" box. They couldn't have made it worse if they tried

 

[trevhagl]

I've added my tuppence to the debate but i doubt hotmail will see it?

 

[kyser_soze]

www.gmail.com

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

I've added my tuppence to the debate but i doubt hotmail will see it?

or care.

 

[trevhagl]

or care.

True.
Isn't it wierd that people devise these things, and other 'great' marketing ideas like making every lager extra cold, are on 10x the wage of people with common sense?

 

[5t3IIa]

(((bee)))

 

[trevhagl]

(((bee)))

????

 

[5t3IIa]

????

I was giving a comforting hug to that poor bee stuck on your bonnet

 

[trevhagl]

I was giving a comforting hug to that poor bee stuck on your bonnet

Still ?????

 

[Crispy]

merged

 

[chilango]

www.gmail.com

innit.

(thogh I couldn't set up an automatic forward from hotmail to gmail like i could from yahoo to gmail)

 

[Crispy]

can you set up hotmail for POP3 access?

 

[fogbat]

can you set up hotmail for POP3 access?

Nope.

 

[softybabe]

hmmm not sure i like the new Hotmail

 

[newme]

Nope.

They changed it then? Cos you used to be able to, via an extra program but it was doable and worked fine.

 

[dweller]

new hotmail is crap and fugly,
I use gmail and a couple of hotmails....

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Nope.

Unless you pay.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

get gmail already.

Thread ended here, to be quite honest.

 

[Gingerman]

Fuckin shit,why do they have to change stuff

 

[teuchter]

Thread ended here, to be quite honest.

But I like my hotmail address because I got in early enough to get my full name without any numbers and stuff, and I don't want to be one of these people who's constantly changing email addresses.

 

[teuchter]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10083890-2.html

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/07/hotmail_new_interface_complaints/