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It's back up, and now I'm seeing the new message Compose window (yay). Sounds inconceivable, but perhaps the push required some kind of downtime?

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No, I had the new compose window about 12 hours ago, yet I still had downtime a few minutes ago. I'm not saying the downtime wasn't somehow related to these changes, but downtime does not appear to be a necessary or intentional part of the rollout.

No, I got prompted for that about 1pm GMT (9hrs ago) for all of my accounts.

'Not now'. What a bunch of crap. New 'windows' in a browser suck all kinds of ass. You'd think they'd learnt this when we all did 5 years ago.

I like it. It's not a new window, it just stays on top – making it better (for me) than either 1) saving as a draft, then looking through old mail to find content for the new message, then finding the draft and completing the message, or 2) opening the new message in a "real" new window which then needs attended to. Also like the recipients' pics, which makes it harder to send to an unintended recipient.

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