3 Email Chiefs Come to Dinner

3 Email Chiefs Come to Dinner: "Re:Google rules!
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by CDPatten (907182) Alter Relationship on Wednesday December 21, @04:44PM (#14312866)
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You are way off man. MS has demonstrated one of the best web clients for years; it comes with Exchange and is called outlook web access.

That said, MS and Yahoo both have public beta testing for web clients that are far superior to what google has now. Check them out if you don't believe me. What stops them from going public as quickly as google upgrades is that while google has a few million subscribers the other two have 10 of millions. It's a bit different when you deal with grown up numbers.

Google might have something in the works, but there isn't much buzz in or out of the google campus about it. And as long as their core number of users is small they won't be a real player ... they may be in respects to the media coverage, but certainly not with the numbers."

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Unfortunately, Buchheit kept interrupting to mention advertisers based on what Doerr and Diamond were talking about.
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Better that than the other two popping up big printed advertisements in your face, totally unrelated to what you're talking about.
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And for dinner they had...

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by bk4u (682315) on Wednesday December 21, @04:37PM (#14312812)
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AJAX drag and drop email is becoming commonplace

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by IGnatius T Foobar (4328) on Wednesday December 21, @05:03PM (#14312994)
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AJAX based drag-and-drop email is becoming commonplace now. At this point it's a "must have" feature, and any web based email program that doesn't have it is going to look as if it hasn't been updated since 2004 :)

Yahoo and MSN both have it now. Even the software that drives private email systems has it now. You've probably seen the screenshots for Roundcube [roundcube.net], and you've probably seen the screenshots and swf-demos [citadel.org] of systems like Citadel [citadel.org] and Zimbra [zimbra.com].

The point is, Google was the big trailblazer here, but at this point, everyone is now on that trail. The bar has been raised and rich AJAX webmail has quickly gone past "innovative" and is now "an expectation." Meanwhile, Google is probably busy cooking up the Next Big Thing. We hope. :)

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Gmail.

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by TheUncleD (940548) on Wednesday December 21, @06:37PM (#14313647)

The coolest new thing i've seen in Gmail is their implementation of AJAX in the autocompletion of address book names and other goodies in the system. Makes for easier emailing.

https://mail.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=1555