So what do you think of the new Hotmail?

The massive rollout of the new version of Windows Live Hotmail began in September and, as with any change to a highly popular service, there was much public outcry. iGoogle, Facebook, MySpace, and countless other services have received much backlash as they updated their user interfaces. All of them, however, stood by their changes, and so has Microsoft, while listening selectively to feedback, of course:

The rollout has been slow because we've been reading and listening to your comments. We've read all the comments, followed up with some of you, and changed the service as we went. Since our original announcement, we have read and analyzed several thousand comments, fixed several bugs, and released five updates to the code. So, we want you to know that we're listening, we're making changes, and we want the service to be great.

Q: Can I opt out? Can I get the old version back?
A: We can’t provide two fast, secure, reliable experiences, so we have decided to just keep the new version. However, we will continue to improve the new version, based on many of your comments here, to make it work better for you.
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Full Story: So what do you think of the new Hotmail?

 

[sassofalco]

crap, garbage, dregs, junk, cobblers, poppycock, tripe, tosh, guff-stuff, rubbish, kak, twaddle, trash, scum......and that's just what the Sepoys think of it. :eek:

 

[mansrm81]

Alright I guess miss the old classic version.

 

[Tinkerdog]

Crazy new hotmail. On my wife's laptop, the GREEN option locks up when she jumps from one IE to another... but when she selects the LIGHT BLUE, works fine.

Go figure??!!!!

 

[dmex]

crap, garbage, dregs, junk, cobblers, poppycock, tripe, tosh, guff-stuff, rubbish, kak, twaddle, trash, scum......and that's just what the Sepoys think of it. :eek:

I agree

 

[Joan Archer]

I haven't even been to look yet, I have my Hotmail account set up in Windows Live Mail so just deal with any mail through that.
I suppose that I'll have to go have a look at some time when I get 5 minutes to spare but it's not top of my to do list

 

[rasmasyean]

Does it still have Free Push email to your mobile phone?
That is supposed to be one of the awesome features of hotmail.

 

[lutter564]

It´s Not Only The New Hotmail. It is also The Beta Messenger and so on. And The User Can´t Decise about the Login Service and so on. Microsoft Is Making his Name Bad By Itself.

 

[DeXtmL]

no, it is not that bad like what u said.

ms has given up lots of heavy components in the classic design and reconstructed a whole new backing system. As what ms has promised, speed now goes upto 70% faster and give you more inter-connectivity.

if you are experiencing problems, first check you own system config. Services ONLY work on healthy system.

 

[lutter564]

OK. The Live Version is Faster. And Its My Opinion. I Didnt ´like to Much "Online Living". My Ex Girl Friend Lives Now in ICQ, MSN, (KWICK in Germany) iLove(German) and so on. And Here in Germany its Expensive to be Online. At the First; Because The Money. And The Second; The Time. The People who only Living "Virtual". That´s the Problem. And Since The Internet Providers must Save the User Data (in Germany) and so on, the Internet is Really Slow in Citys Under 100,000 People. Thats Why I Didn ´t like it so much. In Five Words Big Brother Is Watching You. But Not only Watching.

 

[muskegman1]

Well its not too bad , I suppose but I was happy with the old one

 

[mattinahat]

The new one doesn't work in my browser (FF3 btw) I can open emails if i am hell quick when it loads but otherwise it just sits there idling away.

MS has royally screwed up this one.

I would rather have a fully working version of Hotmail than a version that requires you use IE before you can use it.

Thats my 2 cents

 

[Nixeon]

I didn't think it was all bad, I like the new look. However like above I've had problems with it when not using IE, for example, when I used Chrome it wouldn't let me type new messages.

 

[rasmasyean]

Well, it's the same thing with SkyDrive.

You may not have noticed but in FF you don't get an option to drag and drop files into your online storage. It's some ActiveX thing I believe.

There have been a few other sites I've went to with FF that I noticed something was "missing" and went back to IE and found the difference. I wouldn't have noticed it if I never visited the site in IE first. So now I use moslty IE for surfing and just have a FF window open for forums for the in-box spell checker.

 

[ITJUNKIE]

I have not used hot mail in a long long time. I am pretty sure my account has lapsed.

The main reason I don't use IE and avoid other MS online products is because of the vendor lock in issues.

I prefer Gmail and yahoo mail Gmail more so because it is a cross platform service and application suite with google docus and calendar etc

 

[mattinahat]

I like FF because it has a HUGE developer base so addons are constantly being rolled out whereas IE is closed-source. Nough' said!

IE probably has a better look to it but FF can be customised with skins and such.

Compared to

 

[rasmasyean]

I like FF because it has a HUGE developer base so addons are constantly being rolled out whereas IE is closed-source. Nough' said!

IE probably has a better look to it but FF can be customised with skins and such.

Compared to

Incidentally, I couldn't load your images in FF right off the bat. LOL
It would just keep saying "loading" but it wouldn't pop up so I did it in IE.
I had to restart FF and then it worked all of the sudden.

Sometimes FF has some quirks. Like in this other forum today...that I wasn't able to get the "log me on every time I visit" working for a few days, I like posted anonymous, but then the confirmation pic with "artistic text" wouldn't show for me to read it! So then someone said to delete the cache and stuff so I deleted everything and then the confirmation box finally appeared! :eek:

And a bonus was that my "log me on every time I visit" setting started to work again too!!!

I guess it's a "When in doubt, delete all settings" kind of browser.

 

[dmex]

I like FF because it has a HUGE developer base so addons are constantly being rolled out whereas IE is closed-source. Nough' said!

IE probably has a better look to it but FF can be customized with skins and such.


Compared to

You can use 95% of all Firefox addons with Internet Explorer using IE7Pro with another addon but I forgot its name :huh:

I guess it's a "When in doubt, delete all settings" kind of browser.

They have had that problem and many others since the first release of Firefox 3 still unfixed, they need to sort their stuff out and start fixing these bugs sometime because the list of bugs is growing in the thousands

 

[Joan Archer]

I'll stick with IE7Pro, I've never really had any problems with it same as with my Hotmail account, I got the free account years ago just for using in forums and newsgroups more than anything but it's never caused any problems so I keep it alongside my Gmail and 2 other mail accounts, they have their uses depending what mail I'm sending.

 

[Vinz]

Not much...maybe a little eye candy but thats it.