Microsoft is Kinda Old, Lame, Behind the Times
Vent: I'm sick of Hotmail. I've had it since I started emailing. I've had the same address forever. Lately the entire rich text capability has dropped to the floor for no apparent reason. So I can't send anything but plain text. Plus, all the email headers appear in the body when replying, so I have to delete them. DUMB! JUNK! Windows Live Mail, the updated email client that sort of replaces Outlook Express SUCKS! It's a piece of crapola! 1) Windows Live Mail doesn't allow multiple users with separate passworded logins - as Outlook Express did, 2) Sometimes when you click on a local folder in the left pane to interace with what's in the folder, it doesn't do anything at all - the contents don't appear in the main pane. 3) I've seen it crash quite often. Every time it has crashed, I've not even been doing it. It's minimized. 4) There are many other email clients that put Live Mail to shame, so why use it? It really sucks. Hotmail is a stone age product compared to similar services like Gmail, Yahoo, etc. I could go on and on about how lame and slow the interface is. It's totally old school junk compared with what is possible with AJAXian technologies - such as those Google applications utilize. It's not easy to configure an email client to connect with Hotmail. Microsoft purposely makes it difficult and forces you to only be able to do it properly with their Windows Live Mail client - which SUCKS! Sayonara Microsoft products. I'm going to use Mozilla Thunderbird as my email client, and I'll have an email address through my own web site.