I’m the increasingly discontent owner of an Hotmail account (don’t laugh, I subscribed back when Hotmail wasn’t owned by Microsoft). Recently, in order to compete with Google on the Web, Hotmail’s interface was overhauled: it now has a “classic” interface, which works reasonably well but is still rather limited, and a supposedly “Full” interface that should make it the equal of sites like Google Apps and Yahoo Mail/Calendar/etc.
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akf
16 years 36 weeks 3 days 4 hours ago
side effect: web-statistcs
The side effect of this: changing the user-agent string this way manipulates web-statistics in favor of Microsoft again.
motters
16 years 35 weeks 6 days 3 hours ago
Avoid software with antifeatures
This is a good example of an antifeature. It highlights a more general problem with hosted mail, in that the company doing the hosting can change their policy at any time restricting you to particular browsers or operating systems. Basically it's an attack on your freedom to run whatever software you wish on your own computer.