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Hotmail Change
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Has the design of anyone else's Hotmail changed today? Just logged on, and it's undergone a fairly radical restyling. Not sure if I like it, but probably will just need time to get used to it - a bit like when AB was changed!
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Microsoft started rolling out changes to Outlook.com back in March
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but, at that time, some new features were still optional. As with the way that Microsoft always seems to work though, features which are initially optional eventually get forced onto everyone, so it seems that they must have reached that stage now.
Microsoft's development teams are staffed by people who know that they need to keep 'improving' things in order to keep their jobs. As a result,users of Microsoft products keep getting lots of new (but generally unwanted) features foisted upon them.
I wouldn't touch Hotmail/Outlook with an infinite number of the proverbial bargepoles. If you don't like the changes I suggest switching to a more user-friendly service, such as GMX. (You needn't lose your Hotmail address. You can configure the 'mail collector' facility to automatically forward mail sent to your Hotmail address to your new one).
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Alternatively (or as well) you might like to consider ditching webmail altogether and accessing your email accounts (whether they be with Hotmail, GMX or anyone else) through a proper email client. Then you won't have to concern yourself with the ever-changing interfaces of web-based services:
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but, at that time, some new features were still optional. As with the way that Microsoft always seems to work though, features which are initially optional eventually get forced onto everyone, so it seems that they must have reached that stage now.
Microsoft's development teams are staffed by people who know that they need to keep 'improving' things in order to keep their jobs. As a result,users of Microsoft products keep getting lots of new (but generally unwanted) features foisted upon them.
I wouldn't touch Hotmail/Outlook with an infinite number of the proverbial bargepoles. If you don't like the changes I suggest switching to a more user-friendly service, such as GMX. (You needn't lose your Hotmail address. You can configure the 'mail collector' facility to automatically forward mail sent to your Hotmail address to your new one).
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Alternatively (or as well) you might like to consider ditching webmail altogether and accessing your email accounts (whether they be with Hotmail, GMX or anyone else) through a proper email client. Then you won't have to concern yourself with the ever-changing interfaces of web-based services:
https:/
Have noted your recommendation of gmx before, Chris, but I've had the same Hotmail address for 20 years and (touch wood) I've never had any problems with it. I don't need anything very sophisticated - that's why I like OpenOffice - and I'm sure it'll seem 'normal' ere long, as has AB since the redesign.
As you're there, do you by any chance have a screen shot of how AB used to look? I can't remember now!
As you're there, do you by any chance have a screen shot of how AB used to look? I can't remember now!
Mine changed over the weekend. A little garish with the unnecessary colour theme, and not yet figured out why I need 2 draft files, 2 archive files, and 2 sent files split between favourites and folders. Seems like a case of a "designer" wanting to prove how innovative he/she is, without really achieving anything of purpose.
goodgoalie, this is the earliest one on the wayback machine
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>>> do you by any chance have a screen shot of how AB used to look? I can't remember now!
My computer is cluttered up with loads of junk but screenshots of old AB pages aren't included ;-)
However there are some screenshots available through Wayback Machine.
e.g. from November 2010:
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Things were more colourful all the way back in 2002 though!
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(That page might take a few moments to load because it involves a server redirect)
My computer is cluttered up with loads of junk but screenshots of old AB pages aren't included ;-)
However there are some screenshots available through Wayback Machine.
e.g. from November 2010:
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Things were more colourful all the way back in 2002 though!
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(That page might take a few moments to load because it involves a server redirect)
I also see that my first AB link above is dead! It's not my day, is it?
Select your own from here:
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(Choose a year and then click on a date with a coloured dot on it)
Select your own from here:
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(Choose a year and then click on a date with a coloured dot on it)
Donny:
If you're sticking with Plusnet as your ISP then you can simply set up a new email account with, say, GMX and use the 'mail collector' facility to get mail sent to your Plusnet address forwarded to your GMX one. So you don't actually need to tell any of your contacts that you've changed your address; they can still use your old one if they want to. (However it would make sense to send out emails to people, telling them about your new address, but you can do that entirely in your own time. Neither Plusnet or GMX would know or care about which address you were using).
If you were leaving Plusnet however then you'd normally lose your Plusnet email account, meaning that you'd need to act fairly quickly to ensure that everyone knew your new address. (GMX's mail collector can't collect mail from a non-existent address). However Plusnet do offer an 'email only' account option (at £1.06 per month, unless it's gone up recently), so that their former customers can keep their Plusnet addresses.
If you're sticking with Plusnet as your ISP then you can simply set up a new email account with, say, GMX and use the 'mail collector' facility to get mail sent to your Plusnet address forwarded to your GMX one. So you don't actually need to tell any of your contacts that you've changed your address; they can still use your old one if they want to. (However it would make sense to send out emails to people, telling them about your new address, but you can do that entirely in your own time. Neither Plusnet or GMX would know or care about which address you were using).
If you were leaving Plusnet however then you'd normally lose your Plusnet email account, meaning that you'd need to act fairly quickly to ensure that everyone knew your new address. (GMX's mail collector can't collect mail from a non-existent address). However Plusnet do offer an 'email only' account option (at £1.06 per month, unless it's gone up recently), so that their former customers can keep their Plusnet addresses.
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