Comments on: How Many Engineers Does It Take To Make Hotmail Work In Google Chrome?

By: Lera Logan

Lera Logan — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:07:54 +0000

Just want to say, couldn’t care less about e-mail or twitter right now. Since Google I can’t get to my bank web site to pay bills.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:33:34 +0000

Sure it works… that’s why I get an error now with two big yellow buttons (try again and report this problem), neither of which works…

Time to completely switch to GMail?

By: Elijah Bailey (zu)

Elijah Bailey (zu) — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:47:15 +0000

That’s what’s up. I <3 the Big G.

By: Elijah Bailey (zu)

Elijah Bailey (zu) — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:46:21 +0000

Nice to know to not depend on the web interface. It surely will make my 15-year old email work a bit more ;p

By: Srikanth

Srikanth — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:25:04 +0000

Ha Ha Ha!….Good One ; )….

By: Chandra

Chandra — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 05:26:15 +0000

Chrome just released an update for Chrome with a automated workaround for hotmail (by changing the user agent string automatically); They said so in their release information!! The update also comes with a fix for yahoo mail issue (new yahoomail webpage)

“Windows Live Hotmail now works. While the Hotmail team works on a proper fix, we’re deploying a workaround that changes the user agent string that Google Chrome sends when requesting URLs that end with mail.live.com”

By: Adrian

Adrian — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:12:01 +0000

No kidding!! It bugs the heck out of me that I still need to run another browser to access Hotmail, but with Chrome’s browser share, that ball is pretty much in Google’s court.

By: The problem isn't webkit anything.

The problem isn't webkit anything. — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:22:42 +0000

The fact that changing browser ID’s makes it work is proof that it is not Chrome which is broken. Chrome would happily render the pages if Microsoft would send them. The hotmail decision makers CHOSE not to support Chrome.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:15:32 +0000

google Creme is opensource
hotmail is only codded for IE 6-7-8
that’s all!!

By: Punit

Punit — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:45:24 +0000

TC is anti-Microsoft even when microsoft is right. The blog entry on “Photosynth down vs apple fiasco” anyone.

And Chrome sucks. pretty much. its fast but that doesnt mean a thing if half the sites dont work on it. and its not that those that dont work are not standards compliant. they work perfectly fine in firefox and opera. so why not on chrome. just because it has been made by google doesn’t mean it has to be right.

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:47:42 +0000

Even Firefox isn’t all that well supported, though.

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:44:12 +0000

Why is anyone surprised?

When you have so many sites out there that don’t even work with FIREFOX*, and don’t seem to care, why is anyone surprised to find something that doesn’t work with Chrome?

Those of us who understand that there are a variety of browsers and actually try to design sites that work on all of them are a very small minority. Most developers simply don’t know or don’t care.

* Pet peeve: Orange County Performing Arts Center – I lost good seats for Phantom of the Opera because their site didn’t support Firefox.

* New gripe: SocialToo blog becomes unreadable if you increase the font size in FF or Chrome.

By: Morgan Cheng

Morgan Cheng — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 06:29:59 +0000

Today, I login in live hotmail in Chrome and found that I can write new email now.

Seems there is a upgrade to fix the issue.

By: 22

22 — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 06:10:33 +0000

Somewhat related…….when is the release date for G Chrome for Macs? MSFT isn’t the only slow-poke with G Chrome stuff…….G themselves are slow.

By: rick

rick — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:29:13 +0000

who cares about Google Chrome, another half ass project by Google

By: Outdated information

Outdated information — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:15:54 +0000

http://www.tech...e-gmail-outage/

100M.

Sucks when superior information gets in the way of a good, uninformed rant.

By: lame

lame — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:11:14 +0000

Wake me up when you can get the email that Yahoo Mail holds hostage out with IMAP.

By: Outdated information

Outdated information — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:07:34 +0000

Gmail had 52M users nearly 3 years ago.

http://googlesy...ar-webmail.html

According to the site you are reading, Gmail now has over 100M users.

http://www.tech...e-gmail-outage/

By: not true

not true — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:58:18 +0000

I don’t believe you. Gmail spam protection is much better than the competition.

http://www.askd...ering_spam.html

By: Yasser Ismail

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:48:42 +0000

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By: Nobody's business

Nobody's business — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:38:44 +0000

Exactly how is hotmail annoying. It is gmail which sucks in performance

By: Nobody's fan

Nobody's fan — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:36:38 +0000

Hotmail (or WIndows Live mail) has improved a lot recently. Their spam engine is quite good too unlike Gmail where I get 1000 spams a day.

Overall experience with Windows Live pack is much better than I though it would be. I am using it more every day. Have you tried Windows Live gallery yet? It is making picasa leak in the pants

By: Avatar

Avatar — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 01:29:47 +0000

I am also amazed by Robin blaming Microsoft for something is Google Fault… that is completelly ridiculous. Hotmail works pretty much perfectly in Safari and Firefox. and from what i have seen. the alpha of the next Chrome version works with Hotmail too. so how it is this Microsoft Fault?….

For the record many Asp.Net based sites using Ms ajax wont work well in chrome. same goes for some Flex Based sites and pretty much every single thing that involves Silverlight 2 + streaming will behave horrible in Chrome. that is Microsoft Fault too Robin?.

By: phobox

phobox — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:02:22 +0000

Errr, u r an idiot.

By: nick

nick — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:39:46 +0000

Sometimes i also think they are morons but i’ll give them the benefit of the doubt. But it’s not secret that they are biased just like engadget maybe they should join forces.

They quite often make stupid mistakes with the title of their articles. Example today Crunchgear posted an article that’s link to the one here about the IBM/Apple Dispute -

“Apple calls off dogs: Papermaster can now work for Lenovo”

But i thought it was the other way around… and IBM and Lenovo are not one company.

I know, i know anyone can make a mistake but i’ve been seing quite a few mistakes here on techcrunch and crunchgear – maybe they should stop those joints(mj) meetings and perhaps then they can use their senses right.