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Microsoft tweaks Hotmail interface to read Gmail accounts

2010-11-02 11:00 by
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Microsoft has caved in to customers who prefer to use Google's Gmail rather than the software vendor's Hotmail offering, by making Mountain View’s online email available via its own web portal.

In the latest in a series of hit-and-mostly-miss tweaks to Hotmail, Redmond said yesterday that it was rolling out tech that lets users add accounts from other web email services, including its two biggest rivals: Yahoo! and Gmail.

Effectively, Microsoft has slotted a functionality that has been present in its Outlook software client for many years into Hotmail.

Moreover, MS acknowledged that while most people have more than one online email account, they typically use one for juicy gossip and life-affirming messages and the other as a kind of glorified spam landing page for all those pesky websites customers have to sign up to.

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