Thursday, October 12, 2006

Yahoo launches mail beta

Yahoo comes out with yet another improvement in mail to compete with Gmail. A few good things about it, its faster, the tab system is quiet helful..ok for now i could find only these many good points.....now for the bad points...the window is just tooo cluttered now.....they hav done away with the check boxes, but i guess that was much easier to handle for a technically averse person...attachments still take that much time...Yahoo has shown no innovation, first it emulates outlook, something like Google calendar has been added , you can add events in that calendar, you have a notepad, much like Google notepad, which infact is downloadable and not just limited to mails.....comeone Yahoo! instead of providing a mixture of things already present why not come out with something new and how about a little improvement in performance.....

one more thing i would like to add here...today i had a mail in which there was a big table embedded, and it was really tough to read the table properly in the same frame called reading pane, there should be a way to expand it to window size, and if there already is, Yahoo! should make it a bit obvious, cause E-mailing is a daily thing and I cant waste my time and energy figuring out hidden ways of doing something....

all this makes me more and more convinced that decision to migrate to Gmail was right....

1 comment:

snapShot said...

When you are traversing through like 100 mails in ur folder, it gets very very slow ... checkbox is gone, but good you can single click to select it (using ctrl); although i do agree, checkbox system is better for non-techies nd for techies too ... good thing that i felt is you can drag n drop the msgs to a folder, though again it shows not technical enhancement ... overall the only major change that is seen is giving it a new look ... many of the features are still under construction, i would wait for it ... plus best thing abt google is - it does not show any flashy ads, hence very less distracting