Why is it so unbelievably slow?/
Not Happy!
After years of having a hotmail account and liking that...
As millions of other people did...
Microsoft did what they always do: screwed it up.
At one point msn/hotmail had more total users then all other email sources combined.
Then when they capped the market and a few people were baited into gmail suddenly microsoft uses an excuse of "we are losing clients" and divestes from the email service entirely...
Or did they?
Because a year later it was another surprise for most of us as we open our inboxes...
Outlook (preview) version.
AKA OUTLOOK ADWARE HELL.
I had to use an adblock extension on my browser to stop this insanity. Its ads and more ads and my tracking cookie counter was going berzerk.
So I added adblock plus which is an easy extension ad on for opera and firefox. Thats when outlook really gets ugly. My emails page takes forever to load due to it repeatedly attempting to load all the adwares which can not be found.
Also with this newness...
Suddenly your email box is attached to everything. One of the craziest option choices I have ever seen now is this: IT NOTIFIES EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN YOUR CONTACT/ADDRESS BOOK EVERYTIME YOU SEND OR RECEIVE AN EMAIL> WTH?
If I wanted everyone to know about my email I WOULD SEND THEM ONE. Gee. This is NOT twitter people, there is actually an expectation of privacy in your email account box.
I also dont understand that its a one size fits all apps oriented deal now. This does not work well for any pc.
Next nightmare is keeping up with HOW BIG YOUR BOX IS. There used to be a page count. I had a break point page number that when reached I would begin to purge and clean.
Now its all in one long running format like a twitter page and its BAD. I figure I am well past my page limit but cant tell. I plan to purge anyway.
This of course brings about a real dilema. Young people dont understand the evolution of email accounts, more experienced computer users do. This boils down to reality of not many viable mainstream choices for email unless you become a host.
Moving forward suddenly microsoft is reconnecting with the whole outlook platform and calling that outlook365 in attempting to meld that with windows 8 & 10. Im not seeing reports of that going too well, but then again Im not seeing reports of either windows 8 or 10 going well either.
This is looking as if the age of the pc and possibly the internet is winding down. Every technology has its curve. Usually signs of its late life is when everything about it is only on a trial basis and is constanly adding crazy features that people dont use.
This is a sign of the times maybe, but I did expect more.
-kevin
Great and now its mobile compatible
Great and now its mobile compatible
It's a good email site.
Their website is really slow.