(This is a copy from my post off another site but I'm so irate ATM I had to spread it around. Don't even know if this is the right forum but I hope someone understands/appreciates my sentiments.)
I come home from a long day of work and log into my account to find what might as well have been a black screen with giant middle finger on it. What gives? It's no longer hotmail, it's Windows Live! F-you longtime user!
I can forgive that it's really, REALLY ugly. It will take time to get used to, but OK. These things happens. Some moron at Microsoft thought "Hey, change is good, even if it's really NOT!"
So like any well adjusted geek, the first email I click on is the NewEgg deals newsletter (from promo@email.newegg.com). There are big grey boxes where pictures should be. Odd. I've received dozens, maybe hundreds of these and never have there been big grey boxes instead of pictures. I look for an explanation, and I see a dainty little exclaimation mark next to the phrase "You may not know this sender."
Oh really? After letting dozens of emails from this sender litter my inbox, I may NOT know this sender?! Who the hell are you talking to you mutant, hillbilly cousin of hotmail? Oh well, this program is new and stupid, I'll point it in the right direction. I click "Mark as safe" and it refreshes, responding "You've just added this sender to your safe senders list." Ok now that's out of the way- WAIT! Where are my pictures? Still grey boxes dominate my screen. Just to make sure it registered, I reload the inbox and click the email again. Surprise! Nothing has changed! And it still says I may not know the sender, even though I just clicked that I did! Smart!
Again, I look for an explanation of why I'm not seeing the pictures I now realize I've taken for granted all this time. I see a highlighted bar saying "Attachments, pictures and links have been blocked for your safety." My safety? Am I two years old? What the hell is something in webmail going to do to me - reach out and tear off my testicles?! And didn't I just add this to my safe senders list? What good is a safe senders list if you aren't going to assume what they send me is safe?!?!
I click the "Show content" link next to the highlighted bar and sure enough, now I see my pictures. Apparently, I will need to repeat this process for almost EVERY SINGLE EMAIL I receive, save for buddies just saying "Hi," except if they are nice enough to think I'd enjoy a link or a funny picture, and then of course I would have to repeat this mind-bogglingly stupid exercise. And then I realize: my days of being comforted by the familiar face and function of the first, best webmail program are gone forever.
And what is it all for anyways? 4 more GB? I didn't even used a quarter of that 1GB they graciously upgraded me to some recent time ago.
So here's to you Microsoft. Create something great, gain a following, and in one single day piss it all away. Good job guys.
And hello GMail.
-Happy user of Hotmail for over 10 years as far as I can guess... until today
(PS: Does anyone know how to batch forward 5200 emails to a gmail account?
PPS: And if anyone knows someone who works at MS, first kick them in the genitals, and then have them explain what the hell they were thinking when they shat this disaster upon the internet.)
I come home from a long day of work and log into my account to find what might as well have been a black screen with giant middle finger on it. What gives? It's no longer hotmail, it's Windows Live! F-you longtime user!
I can forgive that it's really, REALLY ugly. It will take time to get used to, but OK. These things happens. Some moron at Microsoft thought "Hey, change is good, even if it's really NOT!"
So like any well adjusted geek, the first email I click on is the NewEgg deals newsletter (from promo@email.newegg.com). There are big grey boxes where pictures should be. Odd. I've received dozens, maybe hundreds of these and never have there been big grey boxes instead of pictures. I look for an explanation, and I see a dainty little exclaimation mark next to the phrase "You may not know this sender."
Oh really? After letting dozens of emails from this sender litter my inbox, I may NOT know this sender?! Who the hell are you talking to you mutant, hillbilly cousin of hotmail? Oh well, this program is new and stupid, I'll point it in the right direction. I click "Mark as safe" and it refreshes, responding "You've just added this sender to your safe senders list." Ok now that's out of the way- WAIT! Where are my pictures? Still grey boxes dominate my screen. Just to make sure it registered, I reload the inbox and click the email again. Surprise! Nothing has changed! And it still says I may not know the sender, even though I just clicked that I did! Smart!
Again, I look for an explanation of why I'm not seeing the pictures I now realize I've taken for granted all this time. I see a highlighted bar saying "Attachments, pictures and links have been blocked for your safety." My safety? Am I two years old? What the hell is something in webmail going to do to me - reach out and tear off my testicles?! And didn't I just add this to my safe senders list? What good is a safe senders list if you aren't going to assume what they send me is safe?!?!
I click the "Show content" link next to the highlighted bar and sure enough, now I see my pictures. Apparently, I will need to repeat this process for almost EVERY SINGLE EMAIL I receive, save for buddies just saying "Hi," except if they are nice enough to think I'd enjoy a link or a funny picture, and then of course I would have to repeat this mind-bogglingly stupid exercise. And then I realize: my days of being comforted by the familiar face and function of the first, best webmail program are gone forever.
And what is it all for anyways? 4 more GB? I didn't even used a quarter of that 1GB they graciously upgraded me to some recent time ago.
So here's to you Microsoft. Create something great, gain a following, and in one single day piss it all away. Good job guys.
And hello GMail.
-Happy user of Hotmail for over 10 years as far as I can guess... until today
(PS: Does anyone know how to batch forward 5200 emails to a gmail account?
PPS: And if anyone knows someone who works at MS, first kick them in the genitals, and then have them explain what the hell they were thinking when they shat this disaster upon the internet.)