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Scroogled: Why So Negative, Microsoft?
- richardjordan 14y agoI almost spat out my drink seeing the ad on TV yesterday. Before I get into the content, for some reason even the quality of production appeared poor. It seemed as hastily put together as it was poorly thought out. Microsoft must feel it's so far from the powerful juggernaut it once was that people will feel sympathy for it rather than the deeply ingrained mistrust it engendered a decade ago. Still, Microsoft saying don't trust those evil Googlers, come to Microsoft and we'll do you right, just seems bizarrely unlikely. Even if you accept that though, there's the product. I mean Outlook.com isn't bad. I have taken my name on there, and I use it for one of my spam-safe accounts, and it's better than the old hotmail was. But it's still a shoddy product. It's buggy. It's really slow. It has some really weird behaviors with formatting sometimes working sometimes not. And it crashes my browser on regularly shortly after opening a link in another window, if you follow links within emails. In short it's a terrible experience if you're moving from GMail. It feels unfinished, if slick looking. In the end all I feel is desperation oozing through the screen from a company I'd not really thought was feeling so desperate, until I saw this ill-conceived waste of advertising dollars.