Live Mail Beta from Microsoft
December 5th, 2005
After signing up over a month ago, I finally got my invitation to try Live Mail Beta (Hotmail Kahuna). I’m less than impressed so far, which is too bad cause I’m really trying to save my hotmail account. OK, so they gave me 2GB of storage. Big deal. What kills me is it doesn’t work in Firefox. I just get this silly message saying “all features haven’t been finished for this browser…”. I wonder how long Microsoft will delay Firefox support to force people to use IE? I say…revolt!
Even with IE, the AJAX interface isn’t close to what Gmail is. Live Mail basically uses glorified frames and page refreshes, with a simply javascript right click menu. C’mon Microsoft, I really expected better.
