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What If Gmail Had Been Designed by Microsoft?

blogoscoped.com — What if Microsoft, not Google, had created Gmail? What would be the differences in that web mail client for users today? What if we apply some of the same design rules that brought us Hotmail, for instance?

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  • searcade, on 11/20/2007, -0/+11Something like this:
    http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/5189/diggmsoftau7 ...
    - By me but a terrible joke.
  • chameeleon, on 11/20/2007, -0/+9I just love the dog in the bottom right - maybe it has an option to replace it with Clippy!
  • dev3, on 11/20/2007, -0/+8Maybe he should do a post of how Vista would look, if designed by Google
  • nekochan, on 11/20/2007, -1/+8disregard, i'm an idiot. digg me down.
  • searcade, on 11/20/2007, -0/+5Yeah i dont mind, its digg were all a brother from another mother i trust u :P
  • dev3, on 11/20/2007, -1/+6Do you really want to expose your email address like that?
  • Daggity, on 11/20/2007, -0/+3What if Apple designed a Porsche, don't change that channel!
  • guymal, on 11/21/2007, -0/+3Probably something like this: http://www.google.com/
  • breefield, on 11/20/2007, -3/+6Or how Digg would look, if designed by Microsoft
  • zouk, on 11/21/2007, -0/+3If gmail is under microsoft then the free services will be turned to paid.
  • spaceninja, on 11/20/2007, -1/+4Something tells me it wouldn't take a 128 meg graphics card to render the desktop properly.
  • inactive, on 11/21/2007, -0/+2Maybe not the exterior, but they might have a helluva chance doing the dashboard.

    Rumor has it that the 2009 VW's will have a little Apple love:

    http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/is-the-vw-space ...
  • searcade, on 11/20/2007, -3/+5You missed that Gmail is now 5083 MB of storage not 2000mb :P
  • MikeonTV, on 11/20/2007, -0/+2Interesting concept. I thought you might do more with it than make a joke
  • Androfire, on 11/20/2007, -1/+3My eyes!!!! My beautiful eyes!!!
  • aptasi, on 11/25/2007, -0/+1Having used Outlook Web Access, Domino Web Access, gmail, yahoo, and others, I have to disagree that MS "did design the best web client". IMHO the paid Yahoo webmail is the best.

    The last time I used OWA regularly (last year), I was working as a contractor on an assignment at a company that had ActiveX disabled for all external websites. It only works "best" with IE while ActiveX is installed. I say "best" because I was never enamored with it. With ActiveX installed, it really sucked, and actually worked better Firefox and Opera than IE. Actually, between GMail, Yahoo, and Domino Web Access, OWA has been my least favorite.
  • metapop, on 11/26/2007, -1/+2ha- don't forget no access for mac users
  • kayshen, on 11/21/2007, -0/+0I wonder how VISTA would look like in Google's way...
  • rid00z, on 11/21/2007, -2/+0Microsoft did design the best web client. Outlook Web Access is the best webmail client created, the first web client that used AJAX. It was before GMail and it was the showcase site for the power of AJAX. GMail is still trying to catch up.
  • searcade, on 11/20/2007, -4/+2Something like this http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tr/jason/googleOS.jpg
  • khail250, on 11/20/2007, -6/+1“What if Microsoft had designed Windows Vista.” Stay tuned!
  • nekochan, on 11/20/2007, -7/+1you still only have 2000mb? i have 5087mb on mine.

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