Comments on: Why Microsoft Is Not Leading In Web

By: Keshavaya

Keshavaya — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:30:46 +0000

Keep working ,great job!

By: Deepak

Deepak — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:15:47 +0000

Arthur,

You are right. It is hard to disagree on this point. So far Google has a superior search engine.

By: Arthur R

Arthur R — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:33:21 +0000

Could it be the case that people switching to GMAIL just because Google is a better search engine? I personally do not use Windows Live Search, because Google deliver better results.

By: Deepak

Deepak — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:49:43 +0000

Hi Anon,

I have been a hotmail user since 1996 and over majority of time I have been a happy user. I started noticing a decline in quality since it was branded as Live. At one time hotmail was most widely used web based email in the world. And now Gmail is taking/snatching away the share. Why? There must be something wrong with hotmail. Everyone in my family use to be on hotmail. They are all using Gmail now.

As a user and just one user, I don’t know if my feedback makes any difference but I hope it does.

Looking at WordPress GMT issue now. Thanks for your feedback.

By: Anon

Anon — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:56:38 +0000

btw, seems like your site’s (wordpress) time is on GMT.. confusing! Would be nice if wordpress can either take my current time zone and display that (whatever it does internally should not matter), or should suffix the time zone for the time the comment was posted! (My last comment is at “August 5th, 2008 at 11:51 am” “GMT”.. that’s 5:51 “MT”)

By: Anon

Anon — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:51:22 +0000

I agree that usability can be better, but for people you have different email addresses (like @live.in), they do know what to type. Hotmail tries to give a hint by saying “(example555@hotmail.com)” below the user name, and I think a better hint would have been “(Example: myemail@hotmail.com or myemail@live.in)” which would clearly tell the user that more than one domain name is possible, and would also help popularize @live.in at the same time!

By: Deepak

Deepak — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:15:10 +0000

Hi Anon,

I think this is where it gets confusing for a user. If you look at the page which gets displayed when you type hotmail.com, you will notice that it uses terms like:

Windows Live Hotmail
MSN Hotmail
Windows Live ID
Passport

To a user this is just complicating things a bit too much. Moreover, nothing on the page itself tells me that I can also use another ID such as example@live.in

I think usability needs some work.

P.S. I will investigate why WordPress is acting smart. Thanks for your feedback :)

By: Anon

Anon — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:05:27 +0000

Reposted using HTML codes for less than and greater than :)
When posting something, it would be great if it could be posted as-is without being too smart! Eg. i typed only the domain name but this wordpress software converted it to a full http address. :(

Hmm.. notice that when you go to http://www.hotmail.com, it redirects to live.com. Also, @hotmail.com is required because hotmail (”Live ID”) does indeed have more than one domain name , for example @live.in.

By: Anon

Anon — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:03:21 +0000

Hmm.. notice that when you go to http://www.hotmail.com, it redirects to live.com. Also, @hotmail.com is required because hotmail (“Live ID”) does indeed have more than one domain name , for example @live.in.