Bio-Hazard
04-26-2006, 02:58 PM
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--After an hour-long discussion at a status meeting last month, the Hotmail redesign really boiled down to one key decision: one big ad, or two?
After months of reworking the venerable Web mail program, Microsoft's team had made all the easy fixes: They'd added more colors and even offered a way to make the new Windows Live Mail look just like the old Hotmail.
But sitting around a table in the nondescript Pyre conference room in Microsoft's Silicon Valley offices, the half-dozen developers and managers couldn't avoid the thorny issue that remained. A significant number of people believed that the new design had too much space devoted to ads, making it hard to use some of the mail program's new features. "
http://news.com.com/Hotmails+new+address/2009-1038_3-6064507.html?tag=nefd.lede
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--After an hour-long discussion at a status meeting last month, the Hotmail redesign really boiled down to one key decision: one big ad, or two?
After months of reworking the venerable Web mail program, Microsoft's team had made all the easy fixes: They'd added more colors and even offered a way to make the new Windows Live Mail look just like the old Hotmail.
But sitting around a table in the nondescript Pyre conference room in Microsoft's Silicon Valley offices, the half-dozen developers and managers couldn't avoid the thorny issue that remained. A significant number of people believed that the new design had too much space devoted to ads, making it hard to use some of the mail program's new features. "
http://news.com.com/Hotmails+new+address/2009-1038_3-6064507.html?tag=nefd.lede