Information Research Weblog

Thanks to Charles Knight for drawing my attention to an article about the beta version of the new Microsoft Hotmail. Personally, I would no more think of using Hotmail than I would think of jumping into a vat of molten lead, since it is such an horrendous spam attractor and the article doesn't address that problem. The author suggests that the beta points to an e-mail system that will be better than GMail, with which it obviously competes, but I don't see it, myself. The three vertical panes of the layout look very clumsy and poorly designed.