timster Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 Yahoo recently revamped its email product, Yahoo Mail, and the changes haven't been well-received by users. AllThingsD's Kara Swisher obtained a humorous, internal memo from Yahoo management to employees, begging them to switch their corporate email accounts to Yahoo Mail. At the time of the memo, only 25% had switched their accounts despite previous requests from management. "Even if we used the most generous of grading curves (say, the one from organic chemistry), we have clearly failed in our goal to move our co-workers to Yahoo Mail," SVP of Communications Products Jeff Bonforte and CIO Randy Roumillat wrote in the memo. Many Yahoos are clinging on to Microsoft Outlook instead, which Bonforte and Roumillat point out isn't "some glorious place of communications nirvana." "Certainly, we can admire the application for its survival," the pair said of Outlook, "an anachronism of the now defunct 90s PC era, a pre-web program written at a time when NT Server terrorized the data center landscape with the confidence of a T-Rex born to yuppie dinosaur parents who fully bought into the illusion of their son?s utter uniqueness because the big-mouthed, tiny-armed monster infant could mimic the gestures of The Itsy-Bitsy Pterodactyl." http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoos-own-employees-dont-want-to-use-yahoo-mail-2013-11 http://allthingsd.com/20131124/while-users-lament-only-25-percent-of-yahoos-willing-eat-mail-dogfood-memo/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hum Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 Yahoo works OK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisj1968 Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 I only use yahoo email because it is free and allows for free external email client setup. thunderbird from mozilla automatically sets up my email with yahoo by automatically knowing or figuring out the email server ports etc. this is all I use from yahoo. most other free services require you to pay some fee to do this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vcfan Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 I used to have yahoo mail back when they had those chat rooms where you would get girls to turn on their webcams for you Roger H., Draconian Guppy, The Evil Overlord and 2 others 5 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Evil Overlord Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 I have a ymail account, but don't really use it, wlm works for me (I should log into it to make sure it's not been locked/recycled) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
francescob Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 I've seen too many inexplicably stolen yahoo accounts or accounts that got targeted localized spam without having ever been used to ever recommend it again. remixedcat 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remixedcat Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 Yahoo accounts can easily be hacked even to bypass two factor. it's easy as hell to bypass two factor on yahoo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blank Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 Last time i ACTUALLY used Yahoo Mail was in 1998. When i was new to the web. Still have the accounts too. Problem with Yahoo Mail is that its always years behind its competitors in features (unless you pay for premium), and way too much spam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remixedcat Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 yahoo spends too much resources buying other companies out rather than improving core services. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
francescob Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 Lol, I've just been locked out one of my Yahoo accounts again, it asked me my secret question (whose answer was an unique 32char random string that even includes unicode characters) and to change the password (that too being an unique 32char random string with unicode characters). Amazing Yahoo, amazing. Now it even asks for my cell phone to allow easier account recoveries... suuuuuuuuure! Can't wait until someday I'll magically start receiving all sort of SMS spam on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeadEndAccount Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 Given how many security breaches there have been with Yahoo since Spark (New Zealand ISP/Telco) moved their email from Microsoft to Yahoo there is good reason why all they have left are those are either ignorant to the alternatives or are in the middle of deciding whether to go with Google, Outlook or iCloud. Then there is the poor reliability of their IMAP/POP3/SMTP service, their website that is trawling in spammers and trolls. Honestly, I can't think of a reason why I'd want to hang on Yahoo - and that doesn't even touch their 'media content' created by journalists who I wonder actually live in the real world. It is wall to wall fail - someone needs to take it around the back of the woodshed and put it out of its misery along with AOL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Fahim S. MVC Posted December 19, 2014 MVC Share Posted December 19, 2014 So let me get this right? Yahoo release a new version of their mail platform. Their own employees don't use it with most preferring to use Outlook instead. The management at Yahoo then send out a memo dissing Outlook. How about this... take a good hard look at Outlook and understand why your employees prefer it. Change your own mail platform so it takes the good bits. No wonder they are failing... blank 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cork1958 Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 Yeah, I've used Yahoo since 1997 and it has done nothing but get worse all the time. I still use the old version of it though, which isn't as bloated as their new version, but it still pretty much sucks! The one thing I do like about Yahoo over Gmail especially, is the fact that I can send a zip/rar .exe file, which I used to need to do quite often before. I still don't like Gmail, or Google for that matter, but find myself using that or Outlook way more often then Yahoo now a days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techbeck Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 If you want random viruses and a ###### ton of spam, use Yahoo mail. It is my spam account for a reason. I have deleted all contacts because Yahoo gets infected more than a 2 dollar hooker and my contacts get emailed crap all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Norris Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 If you want random viruses and a ###### ton of spam, use Yahoo mail. It is my spam account for a reason. I have deleted all contacts because Yahoo gets infected more than a 2 dollar hooker and my contacts get emailed crap all the time. Exactly why I use it, it's awesome for keeping my real email accounts clean, never mind started receiving a bunch of spam before I even actually used the account to register with random sites. Nowadays I get over a hundred per day, easy. And I hear that about the security issues too -- once in a while I'll get a message from somebody I know who uses Yahoo that I know didn't send the thing. No malware on their system, just easy to hack into I guess *shrug*. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 Last year news? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Intersect Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 I used to have yahoo mail back when they had those chat rooms where you would get girls to turn on their webcams for you ahhh yes, yahoo.com/conversations. where you could pimp your self as a normal guy jsut looking for a chat and not a webcam pervert who just wanted to see ermm rude things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Warwagon MVC Posted December 19, 2014 MVC Share Posted December 19, 2014 Yahoo is the worst piece of garbage there is. It gets hacked like Flem! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightEco Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 Their management's comments on Outlook is a perfect example of not understanding the competition and instead trying to just be "trendy". They should look hard at why users like Outlook and how far it has come over the years, compared to just saying that Microsoft is outdated and webmail is where its at. Especially in a corporate environment, there's a good reason most companies use Outlook and not Gmail or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 Their management's comments on Outlook is a perfect example of not understanding the competition and instead trying to just be "trendy". They should look hard at why users like Outlook and how far it has come over the years, compared to just saying that Microsoft is outdated and webmail is where its at. Especially in a corporate environment, there's a good reason most companies use Outlook and not Gmail or something. +100% And if your org uses Outlook 365, then you can access a pretty full featured of Outlook on the web as it is. That being said, I wish Outlook search and labeling would act like Gmail's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neufuse Veteran Posted December 19, 2014 Veteran Share Posted December 19, 2014 yahoo mail or outlook...... hummm oh such a hard choice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryoken Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 Everything Yahoo mail does, GMail, and Outlook/Hotmail do better. So why would anyone switch? Want people to use it? Give em a reason.. Cause adding features the others have had for a decade isn't gonna cut it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Gibs Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 "Certainly, we can admire the application for its survival," the pair said of Outlook, "an anachronism of the now defunct 90s PC era, a pre-web program written at a time when NT Server terrorized the data center landscape with the confidence of a T-Rex born to yuppie dinosaur parents who fully bought into the illusion of their son?s utter uniqueness because the big-mouthed, tiny-armed monster infant could mimic the gestures of The Itsy-Bitsy Pterodactyl." Surprisingly that very same quote can be said of Yahoo...The difference is that is actually holds true for Yahoo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orange Battery Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 I'm in the process of moving my 12 years old, main email address over to my Outlook.Com address. I've had many secondary email accounts over the years with the likes of hotmail and Gmail but had never shifted from Yahoo, even after i struggled to adapt to their horrible new interface a few years ago. Final few straws came this year. 1)Every couple of logons ask me to verify my account via sms etc. 2)Logging into email takes me to Yahoo's main home page and then I have to click back into email. 3)The spam filter seems to have given up in the last two months as im receiving around 10 emails a week which would appear (falsely) to come from my same email address and offer me prescription drugs at a huge discount.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
francescob Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 Everything Yahoo mail does, GMail, and Outlook/Hotmail do better. So why would anyone switch? Well... it may save a lot of time to security researchers looking to set up honeypots... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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