Ahh… the joys of reading my hotmail through outlook express…
I didn’t even know they HAD a new interface. Haven’t used the web version of hotmail in months.
Last time they fucked the interface, I sent them a very polite email telling them how, while I tremendously appreciate the free service and such that, respectfully, the new interface sucks ass. I got an email back saying “Thank you very much for your feedback, we value these kinds of responses! But we don’t care. Neener neener.”
I’m not even going to bother, this time.
Danno, seriously, upgrade from NCSA mosaic. Its day is over; time to move on.
Hotmail works in IE, it works in Mozilla, it works in Netscape and it works in Opera. I guess you’re right though, just because you can’t get it to work properly in Lynx it’s an evil Micro$uck plot.
Well, score one for the good guys. I bet this is just the tiny impetus the market has been waiting for. Come this time tomorrow everyone will know that M$ Internet Exploder is teh suck.
Seriously now, switch to decaf.
Yeah, such joys as getting viruses and worms strolling happily before Outlooks hazy eyes…
Armilla - I guess it is about time to upgrade my browser.
I heard some of these websites actually gots pictures on 'em nowadays. 
Translating Hotmail’s behavior into a real-world scenario, for the thick-headed like Collinsc
HOTMAIL: “Here, let me give you a massage, free.”
CUSTOMER: “Okay, that sounds nice!”
HOTMAIL: “All right, just hold my drink for me…”
CUSTOMER: “Sure, that sounds fair.”
HOTMAIL: ::punches customer in the gut::
Now, if YOU were the customer, would you not complain? Hey, it’s free!
Looks fine to me. I access it directly with my Trillian, and it goes straight to my inbox.
Of course, I only have it so I can talk to people who use MSN Messenger.
I suppose it does look a bit suspiciously like the XP interface, though.
Mark my words - this is yet another step within the whole stupid MS Passport/MSN initiative.
They’re trying to make hotmail just one strand of a wider range of services - to get hotmail customers used to the concept that all MSN services work through a single username and password sign-on. This move is to encourage hotmail users to go “hey, MSN provides hundreds of great services, of which hotmail is just one! Let me get my Visa card out and also give Billy Boy my firstborn”. Except that the services are irrelevant and shite.
A single sign-on is a great idea, but who wants to be locked into some shitty monopoly?
Haven’t had a problem yet. This is Outlook Express, not Outlook. As far as I know, it doesn’t run attachments by default.
Who’s locked in? The barrier to someone else providing a similar service is, um, nothing. Nothing whatsoever. All they have to do is provide a better service than Microsoft. I’d love to see it, personally; I don’t want a monopoly in the authentication market, nor a Microsoft/Verisign duopoly. But I don’t see how Microsoft can possibly be to blame for the fact that no-one else has done anything significantly passport-esque yet.
I’ve had a MAJOR problem:
The server on which my account is located has been down since 11 PM EST Monday, meaning I haven’t been able to use the service since then. Last night and today I’ve gotten a cryptic message that tells me to close the browser and restart. But that’s not the biggest mushroom stamp to the teeth:
I use MSN Messenger only for the purpose of notifying me when I have a new email, and so it pops up a little box in the corner of my screen, which normally I can happily click to get new mail; now, however, the same box pops up, teasing me into thinking that I have access again, but when I click on the link, I’m again taken to the rogue “we hate you and your kin, so your account’s server is down” page.
Now, I’m all for big companies swooping in and dominating little pissants, but the cocky hot shit attitude they’ve had with this whole hotmail revamping surely is responsible for the “account server being down” considering when the problem started.
Love,
Salty McBitter
The new interface really bites for us users of gotmail, which allows one to download of hotmail for reading by other non-web email clients. Interface changes break gotmail.