I put it as a question, but colleagues of the magazine "PC Magazine" have already decided: Hotmail received a gold medal as the best web-based service this year which ends in a couple more days. The journalists put Google Docs in second place, with grade 4 (of 5), while Microsoft appears webmail with a grade 4.5 (5 also, of course).
They wrote the following to defend the arrival of Hotmail as a number of web services:
"The folks at Microsoft have taken seriously the updates of your webmail service leader-participation-in-world, adding unique tools for organizing and cleaning up inboxes and view active content. [...] The new Hotmail beats Gmail messages prior to the offer, a better implementation of the Conversation view, better tools to maintain order in your inbox and remove "messages" gray, or messages that are not spam but are not priority. "
In fact, Microsoft has brought Hotmail to a new level. He went from being old-fashioned thing of the past to become a mail service option among geeks. Still, I think that Gmail is still a perfect tool with powerful spam filter. It seems like the journalists of "PC Magazine" forgot the Priority box, which classifies the non-spam messages as a priority or not. It was introduced last year, but until now has been improved. And the recent redesign has made viewing Gmail messages in a conversational manner more efficient.
Now they are right about one thing: the display of active content in Hotmail is very good. The message can be handled with some forms of interaction that does not allow conventional mail. But that depends on partnership with the MS web companies in order to do something truly integrated.
Every email service has its pros and its cons. Instead of defending one or the other, I leave the question for you: Hotmail is a web application for 2011 in your opinion?
They wrote the following to defend the arrival of Hotmail as a number of web services:
"The folks at Microsoft have taken seriously the updates of your webmail service leader-participation-in-world, adding unique tools for organizing and cleaning up inboxes and view active content. [...] The new Hotmail beats Gmail messages prior to the offer, a better implementation of the Conversation view, better tools to maintain order in your inbox and remove "messages" gray, or messages that are not spam but are not priority. "
In fact, Microsoft has brought Hotmail to a new level. He went from being old-fashioned thing of the past to become a mail service option among geeks. Still, I think that Gmail is still a perfect tool with powerful spam filter. It seems like the journalists of "PC Magazine" forgot the Priority box, which classifies the non-spam messages as a priority or not. It was introduced last year, but until now has been improved. And the recent redesign has made viewing Gmail messages in a conversational manner more efficient.
Now they are right about one thing: the display of active content in Hotmail is very good. The message can be handled with some forms of interaction that does not allow conventional mail. But that depends on partnership with the MS web companies in order to do something truly integrated.
Every email service has its pros and its cons. Instead of defending one or the other, I leave the question for you: Hotmail is a web application for 2011 in your opinion?
