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Fnord666
on Tuesday January 02 2018, @06:02PM
from the some-things-only-exist-as-a-warning-to-others dept.
from the some-things-only-exist-as-a-warning-to-others dept.
Ars Technica has an article over the background behind Hotmail and how it aquired the stigma it has since its purchase back in 1997 for $450 million. Over the years it served as a showcase for several types of failure, including the inability of Windows servers to work in production or to scale.
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 03 2018, @03:27AM
As a nerd, it's all but expected for us to bash Microsoft any chance we get. But in this particular case, they earned the scorn fairly and keep right on earning it. I have a hotmail account for the purposes of testing my own mail server, and it sucks. I use Office 365 for work, and Outlook Web Access is horrific next to GMail.
How can a company with that much resources just keep getting things like this wrong? I'm starting to think they have a secret motto: "keep improving the products, but make sure to leave at least five especially irritating behaviors or bugs in everything just as a company tradition".