Microsoft Recommends Chrome for Hotmail.. Huh?
If you're having problems with Microsoft Hotmail, skip Microsoft Internet Explorer and go straight to Google Chrome.
Microsoft has overhauled its Hotmail but not all of its 350 million users are having it as smooth as they used to under the old system.
Part of the reason is that the modern Hotmail requires a modern browser. What's most interesting is it that Microsoft is suggesting to users who have problems with the new Hotmail to use Google Chrome rather than Internet Explorer.
“Some customers have indicated that if they use Google Chrome to view their Hotmail account they no longer encounter this problem,” said Microsoft, according to the Register.
Microsoft has told Hotmail users via the forums that those trying to use the webmail service should not use Safari 3 or Firefox 2 – both of which have been replaced by significantly newer versions.
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FireFox FTW
Sorry should of said
I think at this point I.E. users is a moot point. MS packages I.E. with windows and will also have plenty of users. However losing hotmail subscribers to other email providers (I.E. Gmail and Yahoo), would imo be a bigger blow. So them saying use chrome is more of a lesser of two evils approach.\
FireFox FTW
Sorry should of said
I think at this point I.E. users is a moot point. MS packages I.E. with windows and will also have plenty of users. However losing hotmail subscribers to other email providers (I.E. Gmail and Yahoo), would imo be a bigger blow. So them saying use chrome is more of a lesser of two evils approach.\
So, anecdotal quotes from Chrome users?
Any backup to the claims from engineers?
Never had that problem and I been using chrome for a couple years now. I am also assuming your talking about the hotmail check boxes right?
Can't get much better than this.
Ya know, I think this article is completely misleading. They may have said that Chrome works, but why would they say anything about older versions of Safari and Firefox and not say anything about IE? I'm a web programmer, and I'm very familiar with browser trends. The real issue that Microsoft is having is that because IE comes by default on Windows since the conception of IE, there are tons of extremely old versions of it out there. Microsoft has been improving their .NET framework (just went to 4.0 last May/April), this upgrade is to bring Hotmail up to the newer standards of ASP.NET, but older browsers do not support the newer versions of the .NET framework, and because most users do not update their browser frequently enough, you get issues like these. You would all be amazed to know that there are still users out there running IE4, of which a majority of the country is using IE6 and IE7. I run IE8, it works fine with Hotmail.
Just because Microsoft was saying that Chrome is an option, doesn't mean they were saying that you should use that instead of updating your browser. Do I smell a biased/informationally misleading article? I think so.
The other day I used Chrome to see my hotmail account and had the same problem. Firefox doesn't have this problem.
When you have mailbox for multiple years and when you all bank accounts, subscriptions are synchronized with it, do you think it is easy to change it? It does not worth the effort, especially if you use windows live mail instead of browser to check e-mail - that works just fine.
Dear lord are there still people using windows 98 or older OS?
Yes