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What If Gmail Had Been Designed by Microsoft?
- DarrenStuart 19y agoutter fanboy rubbish come on guys.
- rwalker 19y agoIt would be called Hotmail?
- mynameishere 19y agoie: It would have been done over 10 years ago and not called "innovative" by anyone. (Of course, microsoft bought hotmail, but that's aside the point)
- mattculbreth 19y agoOne of my cofounders uses Hotmail for his personal mail. This isn't far from the truth.
- wmorein 19y agoThis one (done internally by a group at Microsoft) is vastly superior: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4313772690011721857 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4313772690011721857
- mattmaroon 19y agoAt least they wouldn't obstinately refuse to add in folders despite the fact that every user begs for them.
- mrtron 19y agoFolders are unnecessary, and the wrong approach for mail. Filters + searching provides you with far more usability than folders could. There are times it is absolutely wrong to listen to your users or clients, especially during a disruptive change like web 1.0->web 2.0.
- mattmaroon 19y agoThat's an incredibly arrogant statement. I don't know if there's ever a time to ignore a large number of users when you're far from the leader in a field. Telling them "you can't have the feature you want, but trust us, this one is better anyway" is just plain foolishness. I personally love folders. Folders + searching is pretty much perfect. Google Reader has folders.