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*Not nearly as sad as Jeff Hanneman's passing today though.

The changeover was forced on me a few weeks ago. Hotmail has been my primary email account since my first day online. I liked it better than any of the other accounts I've had over the years. I don't like Outlook nearly as much.

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I started out with ThirstyDog at Hotmail.com in 1997. Switched to my name in 1999 and have used it to this date. Even when Gmail was forced upon me by my cellphone provider.

I don't like Outlook either.

Likewise

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i like outlook.

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Worst news since R.I.P. Jeff Hanneman.

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I don't use my hotmail account much anymore. It's mainly a spam account at this point, though there are some important emails I have sent there when the gmail spam filters won't let them through.

I absolutely hate the Outlook mail client and since Outlook.com is modeled after that, I'm going to hate it too.

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My college email is through Outlook online also.

It was forced on me a month or two ago. I barely even use it anymore, I've been migrating to another account slowly. They sure know how to piss off their customers, but at least it's not as bad as the new compose window in Gmail. It's like Google and Microsoft are competing to see who can piss off their users more.

^ I really like the compose window in Gmail. I use my Gmail account for work and it makes multitasking easier.

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Try googling it and see people's reactions. Tends to be rather visceral dislike from almost everybody thank god.

They should have at least given us the option to perm keep the old interface. Now we'll be stuck writing emails in an itty-witty text window that takes up only 1/10th of my screen in the bottom right corner (when most people's eyes center on the upper left to center naturally as any web developer knows)

Yes, I know I can move it using arcane and hidden commands, but not permanently and theres no way to make it take up the whole screen. All functions are hidden and you must press a series of arcane runes and guess at their purpose before the standard email options reveal themselves again.

And I dont get the multitasking element of this. How does this in any way make multitasking easier? What exactly was stopping you from opening a compose window in a new tab before and continuing your multitasking? The few people in favor of this botched abortion of fail web design seem to believe that opening a compose window stops everything in its tracks, as if you are mysteriously forbidden from opening up another tab and composing in that while still reading and sourcing other emails and pages. Do you really need so many things open in the same tab at the same time that the compose window is now barely the size of a chatbox?

Whatever dude I wasn't trying to start an argument, I don't really care whether you like it and am not going to try to convince you. I'm happy with the change.

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- Varg

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy, it is the wine of a new procreation, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for men and makes them drunk with the spirit.
- Beethoven

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Argument? I was asking questions and explaining my frustrations. If you didn't want to respond to them, don't respond.

Honestly though, I really am curious how this helps multitasking in a way that composing on a separate tab cannot. I wasn't being sarcastic, it was a real question. It makes zero sense to me and you didn't explain it. I've seen comments like yours before, but every time someone asks them to explain how it's now easier, they don't respond or come back with some snide spam comment like yours. You like it, I get it. Im just trying to figure out what I could possibly be missing.

Well you come across in all your posts like you're having the worst day ever and then get defensive when you get called out on it.

But okay I'll bite...On any given day I probably have 7-8 tabs open in my browser between documents that were in my email, calendar, cases, statutes, and any slacking off windows. Not to mention 4-10 word documents and PDFs, and 2-3 file folders taking up other windows. It's nice that I can consolidate all mail activities in one tab and monitor what emails are coming in at the same time instead of constantly switching back and forth between Inbox/Drafts and/or tabs.

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Make your own path as you walk, and if you ever find footsteps before you turn away from them and continue to walk into the wilderness, where no man has been before you.
- Varg

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy, it is the wine of a new procreation, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for men and makes them drunk with the spirit.
- Beethoven

NOT GOOD ENOUGH!!! RAWWRWRRRRER!

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Make your own path as you walk, and if you ever find footsteps before you turn away from them and continue to walk into the wilderness, where no man has been before you.
- Varg

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy, it is the wine of a new procreation, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for men and makes them drunk with the spirit.
- Beethoven

You guys are arguing about Hotmail like JC, 9 and I about politics. NERDS!

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Fair enough, thank you for explaining. I mostly dislike it because I have very bad eyes and getting them to focus on that small corner of the screen is very hard for me to do. I know it can be moved, but I find the entire process unintuitive. I just don't understand why we can't be given options for the layout. If people like the new way, thats great! But many people also liked the traditional way that's being taken from them.

And yeah, I know I can come off as brusque in political or topics that upset me, but I hardly think it's fair to say that all my posts are like that. Most of my posts I make in the metal forums aren't anyway. I AM aware of how I come off online which is why I attempted to tone it down in my second response to you. Believe it or not, my online demeanor is not intentional. Sorry if I offended.