Introducing the New Yahoo Mail
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I love the concept of creating directories to categorise mails (Thumbs up to Hotmail and Yahoo just for that). The tabbed email feature is also a very big plus for me in Yahoo. Hotmail's quick clean up and other nifty features are also really good.
Anyhow, the changes haven't come to my inbox yet, but the wife showed me her "brand new" Inbox. WoW. Kudos to them. Really really nice..... Very responsive and sleek. I had really appreciated the new changes on Outlook/Hotmail so far, and now this from Yahoo!. Yahoo! ;-)
I have always had a soft spot for Yahoo!, because they were among the first when the internet boomed, to build new software infrastructure technology around it, and they also built it to scale (well). So much of the internet infrastructure that is both standardised and taken for granted is, in one way or another, thanks to Yahoo!'s early and pioneering efforts.
So, I am actually a little bit grateful for what they've done to move the Internet forward. Seems like they are back in contention along with Hotmail in ret(g)aining their user base. I sincerely wish them well.
P.S: I've never got spam on Yahoo! mail as well.
If it had 2 factor auth and a way to trust a particular machine or application (which I think it does?), SMTP and IMAP were free (are they? used to have to pay), there were no ads (even though GMail's aren't terrible), and it guaranteed it would not delete my account or email if unused for years, if it guaranteed a better uptime than GMail (which is already good enough), had contact dupe fixer as good as or better than GMail, had plugin for Thunderbird, etc. to keep contacts in sync so didn't have to use a 3rd party free plugin that breaks at times, and I could see that it was easier to use than GMail, and they guaranteed great security (better than GMail) and that they didn't ever look at the content of my mail or my contacts, that they would never sell me out to anyone, that they were as conspiracy-conscious as I was and apolitical, and if it allowed clutter-free integration with Facebook, etc. to mine them for email addresses when I connected to someone, and if they hated spam and would help me organize my life with easy calendar integration to every major smartphone and other devices, share calendar only with family or have other calendars to share with diff groups, get things done without integrating a tasklist, and ignore the stupid stuff, and guarantee email for life, then I might use it.
The CEO's post shows her involvement in these changes. The changes demonstrate her desire to rework the underpinnings of services rather than revamping the user experience for marginal gains. The former infuse the right elements into Yahoo!'s culture; the latter serve as window dressing and don't help to mitigate/fix the underlying issues that have handicapped Yahoo! over the last 5 or so years.
I am looking forward to future updates to Yahoo!'s services.
Having an @yahoo is embarrassing even for non-geeks.
http://www.campaignmonitor.com/resources/will-it-work/email-...
Marissa Mayer has her work cut out for her. This, along with probably 10,000 other things, needs to change if Yahoo wants to compete with Google (and Microsoft?).
As it clearly says it does so and I confirm as my inbox is wiped clean too. There were just few "Welcome to xyzabc.com" mails.
The landing page had nothing to do with mail and everything to do with piles of crap that Yahoo wants me to look at.
Congratulations Marissa, that's the last time I'll even bother looking when you say "Look! We've changed."
Next.
So we may still be seeing the old version. That said, they probably should have held off on the announcement until it was generally available.
Fair enough. I've got a trigger finger, probably because Yahoo has such a proven record of disappointing. (Yes I did not read her letter in detail.)
Granted, her name has a better brand than Yahoo still, but she's working on that. What you said sounded sexist, and I'm not even a feminist or a female.
Perhaps he's pinning the blame on Mayer because the announcement was written and signed by her! It's the role of the CEO to represent his or her company in this manner and serve as the lightning rod for any feedback. The fact that Mayer is a woman is completely irrelevant. Both Jobs and Gates (and many other male and female CEO's) took on that role, and there is absolutely no shortage of rants and raves over the years directly addressed at them.
In fact, I would say that you are the one being sexist, since you are apparently accusing jpdoctor of sexism based solely on the gender of Yahoo's CEO.
It's not unexpected for newly-joining execs to be blamed for recent decisions.
"What you said sounded sexist, and I'm not even a feminist or a female."
Possibly because you don't understand what a feminist perspective is? There are plenty of ways to be sexist, but strong personalities, male and female certainly get associated with brands.
From there, it is "Account Settings" and then "Notification Settings"
Take note, Yahoo: for me, online mail is largely just a pretty interface to a spam filter. Now that your client is sane, this should be your top priority.
EDIT: Just unsure about what they added... looks like a standard webmail interface?
So, I guess lots of folks have learned from GMail... that GMail is not really right for everyone. If you love tags, cool, but there's something to be said for email that works like one expects email to work.
Wouldn't mind better searching in Y! mail, however; Google did do a good job with that, not surprisingly.
Nobody wants to have @yahoo.com. That's embarrassing in 2012. Or 2006 for that matter.
[1] "Yahoo! Mail was the second largest web-based email service with 310 million users as of October 2011, and the most popular webmail service in the United States" - http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-20114975-52/microsoft-aimi...
Their homepage doesn't clearly explain what has gotten better, and if it all, it is better than GMail. So would love to hear some feedback!
It looks a lot like outlook.com (from what I can see on that small picture), but it looks hot.
I'm very curious how fully functional it is.
Big, ugly ads and an "anti"-spam engine that makes SpamAssassin look good; what's there to come back to? Plus everyone has a smartphone/tablet now and what's that without a Google/GMail account? Yahoo has become irrelevant.
I still use my original yahoo mail account, and my gmail account did not replace it.
Besides, my yahoo spam filter is not worse than my gmail spam filter (I would even say that it has less false positive).
I've been using my Yahoo account for over a decade. Why should I switch? I would have to change all the services that use the email. I never get spammed on Yahoo, despite it being a very old account.
I actually prefer Yahoo over Gmail since it has tabbed emails. I can open several emails at once and compose several at a time. Can't do that with Gmail.
With the new Gmail compose, you can... sort of. It will stack them at the bottom, but only show two "open" at a time (at least on my comp, with a fullscreen chrome window on 1900x1200, maybe you can have more open with a wider screen).
Not ideal, but better than it was at least.
http://visualize.yahoo.com/mail/ (see About, or Comscore's 2011 email market share report)
http://www.campaignmonitor.com/resources/will-it-work/email-...
Yahoo Mail is still more popular than GMail.
+1 for the way you framed it. :-D
I might be reusing it as well.
I don't know whether Yahoo displays images by default or not.
Recently I stopped using Yahoo Messenger, too, because they've been adding a lot of nonsense to it lately.
I don't think the Yahoo spam filter works on an individual basis like the gmail filter does.
When Gmail hit general availability, the quality of filters was not what average users expected. Things would get flagged simply because Grandma was not in the trusted circle of silicon valley.
Eventually they bought Postini, both to boost corporate email business, but also to source a spam filter that had been battle tested across large consumer mail installs.
Tabbed email is a very good start, btw.
And who uses a chat app full screen (like the Windows 8 one)?
Perhaps like this, off to the side.
http://blogs.msdn.com/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/communit...