Sometimes imitation is more than flattery
26/06/2006
Here’s a funny joke: MSN!
I never really used MSN in my life. I never started out with Hotmail (found it too cluttered in it’s pre-msn days, so you can imagine what happened to it after), and it wasn’t really a great search engine. And I never had to use MSN Messenger (thank goodness).
This week I decided to give it a whack again. I mean, you can’t really rag on the guys if you’ve never used it. And so far, my original opinions about them still stand.
MSN should just get out of the market, do the honourable thing, have your dramatic seppuku, have Google or Yahoo! chop your head off, and carry on with your operating system thingamagig. Leave the internet to the people who care.
How do you know MSN doesn’t care? It’s in the little details.
Like how, the MSN homepage will pop open 3 separate windows if you try to sign into hotmail from there. This coming from people who built a browser that doesn’t open tabs. What are they trying to do? Window me to death?
Like how, the pages look wonky (overflowing text) or don’t load in Firefox. But fine. Tons of people don’t design for Firefox, I suppose you won’t.
Like how, Hotmail still starts you off with only 25mb, and will bump you up to 250mb if you’re good. For Pete’s sake, hardly anyone is going to use the 1gb of space. So do they *really* want to look like the idiot left standing with just their undies when everyone else at the party is in a suit? Mind you, it’s not like those nerds at MSN are worth a second glance at. Just check Valleywag. No one in the hottie list was from MSN.
Like how, Hotmail still insists on the 30-day inactivity policy – 30 days of inactivity will render your account inactive and your mail will be wiped. Wah lau, please lah. Dun need so giam kana right? Your user’s lives don’t revolve around you, you know.
Like how, when viewing your Hotmail inbox you’ve to click on the sender instead of the subject line of your mail to view your mail. Dudes – fire your UI designer. Either that or get a real one. Those gawky interns don’t count.
Like how, until a month ago, MSN messenger didn’t offer offline messages. Please. That’s so insulting. Offline messages have been available since 1999.
Seriously?
