I upgraded yesterday to MSN8. I hadn’t wanted to, but my computer kept asking me to login and MSN help was no help at all (but that’s another rant).
So I get all set up and give it a try.
Oh. My. God.
There’s this stupid fluffy bunny interface, with too much of the screen taken up with buttons connecting to things I have no interest in. None of the useful buttons are displayed. My Google toolbar is missing to (though I didn’t try to install it). There’s a “Welcome” sound when you log in (if I wanted AOL, I would have signed up for AOL). None of my Favorites were transferred over.
And there’s no way to go back to MSIE as your default browser. You’re stuck with the damn fluffy interface and useless buttons unless you open MSIE separately. Worse, if I want to use MSIE, I have to start up MSIE and use Dial-Up Networking (tolerable, but it doesn’t seem to save my password, which makes it useless for when my wife or daughter want to log in) or use a MSN dialer that works but doesn’t automatically bring up MSIE. Since my wife and daughter are not computer pros, this will cause problems. (My wife hasn’t seen it, but my daughter hated it at first glance.)
I’m stuck with MSIE until next September (the price I pay for $400 off my computer), but the day my contract runs out, I’m over to Earthlink.