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4 Responses to “Windows Live Hotmail, no more same pinch! :)”
Very Gimmicky and superficial when it comes to mail beta technology. This is a desperate act from Microsoft to break into younger demo segments (wrt email audiences) something that’s completely eluded them ever since they have existed!!!!
Gautham I know you are going to hate me after this but I really think Windows Live Hotmail just doesn’t cut it!!! With the new Gmail beta in the pipeline and Yahoo’s acquisition of Zimbra…folks at Redmond need to up the ante.
I heard an earful last night after my daughter’s Girl Scouts meeting, as a group of tweens and teens chattered about how much they like Windows Live Hotmail. These young “digital natives” had something important to say about the future of Windows Live and enterprise social networking.
“It’s kinda like Xanga and MySpace together, only better,” one girl chirped to another about Windows Live Hotmail.
A second girl cooed about Windows Live Contacts, although she didn’t use that name to describe it.
A younger tween giggled about why Live Hotmail is better than Yahoo because she can put emoticons with her photo.
Two general themes emerged from the girls’ Live Hotmail chatter: What matters most to them online is communicating with friends, and they don’t see any difference between Live Contacts, Hotmail, Messenger or Spaces—it is all one service to them.
As a parent, my descriptor for 11-13 year-old girls is flight. They flitter and fly from one thing to the next. One online fad leads to another—Xanga, MySpace, FaceBook or Windows Live. The girls open accounts as 18-year-olds, hang out for awhile and move on to the next online gathering hole.
But Windows Live has some pull that social networking services like MySpace and Xanga don’t—Windows Live Messenger for starters. Among my daughter’s friends, more of the girls use Live or Yahoo messengers than AIM or other alternatives. Right now, Hotmail is choice du jour. More of the girls used Yahoo Mail before Microsoft relaunched its Web-based mail service as Live Hotmail. …
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About Zimbra, it’s more a compete with Outlook Web Access…which is easily the best web based email client out there just now…you need to be using MIcrosoft Exchange Server for it (i think)….
Would also reccomend you check the new ‘Office Live Workspaces’ that just got launched…
I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don’t know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.
October 1st, 2007 at 5:52 am
Very Gimmicky and superficial when it comes to mail beta technology. This is a desperate act from Microsoft to break into younger demo segments (wrt email audiences) something that’s completely eluded them ever since they have existed!!!!
Gautham I know you are going to hate me after this but I really think Windows Live Hotmail just doesn’t cut it!!! With the new Gmail beta in the pipeline and Yahoo’s acquisition of Zimbra…folks at Redmond need to up the ante.
October 2nd, 2007 at 1:19 am
Hate to bust your bubble Sid
Quoting from http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/web_services_browser/live_hotmail_teen_sensation.html
I heard an earful last night after my daughter’s Girl Scouts meeting, as a group of tweens and teens chattered about how much they like Windows Live Hotmail. These young “digital natives” had something important to say about the future of Windows Live and enterprise social networking.
“It’s kinda like Xanga and MySpace together, only better,” one girl chirped to another about Windows Live Hotmail.
A second girl cooed about Windows Live Contacts, although she didn’t use that name to describe it.
A younger tween giggled about why Live Hotmail is better than Yahoo because she can put emoticons with her photo.
Two general themes emerged from the girls’ Live Hotmail chatter: What matters most to them online is communicating with friends, and they don’t see any difference between Live Contacts, Hotmail, Messenger or Spaces—it is all one service to them.
As a parent, my descriptor for 11-13 year-old girls is flight. They flitter and fly from one thing to the next. One online fad leads to another—Xanga, MySpace, FaceBook or Windows Live. The girls open accounts as 18-year-olds, hang out for awhile and move on to the next online gathering hole.
But Windows Live has some pull that social networking services like MySpace and Xanga don’t—Windows Live Messenger for starters. Among my daughter’s friends, more of the girls use Live or Yahoo messengers than AIM or other alternatives. Right now, Hotmail is choice du jour. More of the girls used Yahoo Mail before Microsoft relaunched its Web-based mail service as Live Hotmail. …
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About Zimbra, it’s more a compete with Outlook Web Access…which is easily the best web based email client out there just now…you need to be using MIcrosoft Exchange Server for it (i think)….
Would also reccomend you check the new ‘Office Live Workspaces’ that just got launched…
October 2nd, 2007 at 1:23 am
PS - When i say best about OWA …i mean most comprehensive in terms of functionality and usability…
November 20th, 2008 at 5:34 am
I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don’t know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.
kaylee
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