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'Hotmail, since you changed to Outlook, you've been a massive pr**k'

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Re: Rule of Thumb

No, it means most people have had the following experience in sending comment to Microsoft:

"Hi, I'd like to report an outage/share a comment/ask a question..."

Snippy person on the phone, if you can get a human: "IT'S A FREE SERVICE!!! WE'LL DO WHAT WE WANT TO DO!!!!!!" [hangs up]

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WTF?

if it ain't broke, let's be sure to fix it

So glad to hear others mourning the loss of hotmail. The new Outlook is cold, hard to read, a bafflingly hard to use replacement, and the forced nature of the migration was truly bizarre. Surely the genius techies could have figured out a way to keep the interface that many of us found far superior to gmail - "old" as it was. No one minds a classic car; why is it that tech is afraid of a classic interface? Now we need a new solution, and gmail isn't it, but Outlook is so painful to use that Microsoft itself will have achieved what Google couldn't - weaning us off Hotmail and away from them for good.

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