I haven’t noticed any pop-up windows. If I do, I’ll be sure to add them to my kill-list.
To me it just looks like a new colour scheme. Not quite as simple as before (I surf with images switched off) but no big deal. The functionality seems to be the same, and my settings haven’t changed.
Hmmm. Just went back to Hotmail a couple of times to test and I didn’t get a pop-up window. The one I got earlier was for one of those X-Cam sales sites. I don’t think I had another site open when I went to Hotmail, but I guess I did since I can’t reproduce the problem. Sorry for the false alarm, guys.
I want to be able to change the color scheme… I don’t like blue. I want green.
I’ve been dealing with the change today, on several occassions… and I don’t like it!:mad:
However, it may be just that it’ll take me a day or so to get used to it… maybe 2 days from now I’ll like it!
The jury is out for the moment…
As stated in someone’s .sig on Slashdot, “If I had wanted your website to make noise, I would have licked my finger and dragged it across the monitor.”
Typical Micro$oft. I have mine forwarded to another POP3 account anyway, but tried it this morning just to see. Bleh.
Yeah, I only found out about it now when the traffic cleared long enough for me to get on the ol’ “information superhighway”. I don’t mind the new look too much, but – dang! It’s smaller! How’s an old coot like me, myopic already, s’posed to be able to cope?!?
I’ll cope. Usually do.
At least I found the Spell Check, which eluded me at first. I guess I won’t complain much, because it’s still FREE!
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I selected a number of messages by clicking on their associated check box, then clicked on the “Delete” button, and got an error message saying I needed to select e-mail messages before clicking delete.
I had them selected, but their damn web page didn’t recognise it. Anyone else have this problem with the NEW Hotmail?
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It could be that I wasn’t using it in IE. Could it?
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(F***ing MS idiots!)
Yes, it seems smaller to me to, thought I just aged a hell of a lot since last night.
I just sent an email to my mom, and the window they give you to type in is about 1/5 the size of my monitor screen. You’ve got this huge monitor screen and they give you this little area to type in, and scroll away. Such a waste of space. Enough with the advertising.
Plus, what I hate is to read your messages you now have to hit enter twice, instead of just once. THe first screen after getting in tells you how many messages you have. Before you got that message at the top of the inbox if I recall.
SOmethings are better, some are worse.
I just checked my email a few minutes ago. I didn’t get past the “Inbox” page. The new look just had me all freaked out. I echo the sentiment that change is bad. Very bad. Maybe I could have handled this later in the day, but I just got to work and I’m half asleep. And the font is smaller. Much smaller. It’s teeny.
Maybe I’ll have some coffee and a cigarette and then try again.
I haven’t checked since yesterday, and it was still the same.
The same shitty Hotmail, dropping half my messages.
I like it. Haven’t had any popups or problems. I personally like change. Unless, of course, change involves peanut butter slices. <shudder>
The screen changes on hotmail are the least of my worries. I haven’t been able to connect to msn from home since last week. It dials, connects, handshakes, says authenticating, then disconnects. I know it’s not my damned password, 'cause I’ve had the same one for 4 years, and I can connect to my email account there using it. And of course, you can’t GET tech support from those people…I’m ready to tell them to F off and Die, and go DSL. Their new browser/interface/whatever is fine, I just open IE for most things anyway, and this way, my techno-phobic husband can actually read his email or find a website without my help. Yes, it’s dumbed down, but some people need that…
I am having this problem too. It was actually the only thing I was going to complain about. (BTW’ I’m in netscape, so it’s not an IE thing)
Oh, and I miss the little triangles and squares that tell me where things come from. I use Hotmail to POP my school e-mail to at home and it really is bothering me that I can’t tell the difference anymore. Or am I just missing something. Anyone found an option that can be turned on for this yet??
For those of you complaining about the font size, just overrule it.
In IE you need to open the ‘Internet Options’ panel from the ‘Tools’ menu, then click ‘Accessibility’. Just make sure that the ‘Ignore font sizes’ box is checked and you can adjust the size as normal.
Thats all kinds a blue!!
My complaints.
I want it to go into my inbox. I don’t care of my e-mail is now a great portal to Bill Gate’s world o fun. I want my e-mail and that’s it. The more I can ignore Bill Gate’s world o fun the better.
The rest of it is whining about change that I will get over. Having to load a seperate page to get TO MY MAIL is annoying.
It’s part of Micro$oft’s emerging “.NET” strategy. It was up briefly yesterday morning, but was running quite poorly, so they dropped it and brought it back up again today. It’s here to stay, so get used to is. More info Here.
That’s one I definitely agree with, Medea’s Child. Why do so many mail providers assume people don’t want to check their mail first thing? It’s not even as though Hotmail is offering anything better; people either have Messenger or don’t want it, and the calendar was already linked to the old inbox.
That’s the single most irritating thing about it.
Ya know, there is always ButtMail. Just a simple page with a photo of a bare ass. Works for me just fine, thankyouverymuch.
OXOXOX,
Diane aka SweetCheeks@Buttmail.zzn.com 