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That's just.. ugh. Trying too hard.

Yahoo Mail looks like GMail and it pretty much works the same. Same goes for the new Outlook. So theres no motivation to switch when I have all my stuff at Google already.

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"with the confidence of a T-Rex born to yuppie dinosaur parents who fully bought into the illusion of their son’s utter uniqueness because the big-mouthed, tiny-armed monster infant could mimic the gestures of The Itsy-Bitsy Pterodactyl." - This is trying too hard

I think it's just down-right unprofessional. I don't work in SV, but if the president of my company wrote something like that he would have been laughed at.

Making things "cutesy" and "funny", is just an obnoxious way to hide your true intentions. It's disrespectful to the intelligence of the people you are talking to. If you're the boss and you insist your subordinates use some product, then straight up say that. Don't try to be "nice" about it because it sounds fake and insulting.

Who does he think he is, patio11?

thats not the issue. it is a consumer webmail standing up to a corporate email and scheduling system.

very few ppl uses webmail as their 8h dAy business email in a fortune 500 company

Where I work now (.edu) I am seeing more and more people use personal webmail (mostly gmail) for all their email instead of the enterprise offering (outlook/exchange). The reason is just so they don't have to deal with the IT bureaucracy.

I think you underestimate how many people use OWA (which, unexpectedly, is actually pretty great).

> Using corp mail from the Y Mail web interface is remarkably feature rich. It supports booking conference rooms, folders, calendar, filters and global address book. Plus, you get built-in Messenger, smart conversation threading, powerful keyboard shortcuts, the new quick actions, attachment preview and our beautiful new rich themes.

This is more than just Gmail. Well, I never worked at Google so I don't know how they manage meetings and room booking. It can be pretty useful in my opinion. For work, you really should forward mails to your work email and I mean a separate email account.

It does look like GMail, but the veneer is fairly thin. It is slow and buggy. And the transition for existing users was poorly thought through. It is Gmail with 90% of the look 75% of the features, and 50% of the polish. I'm a daily user of both, and have defended Yahoo Mail in the past, but GMail is obviously better now that they are so easily compared.

The best part about being out of yahoo employees being out of touch is they want to stay with outlook. Hopefully Marissa can go G+ on them and force them to switch... they login to outlook one day, and then boom its purple.

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