Huh. Yahoo! staffers prefer Outlook, not Yahoo! Mail ...

[deckeda]

http://allthingsd.com/20131124/while-use...food-memo/

Read the leaked memo. Bizarre.

What I don't understand from all this is why anyone would think a consumer-oriented email service such as Yahoo! Mail (or Gmail, or ...) would be a substitute for the gorilla of corporate email and calendaring? Can you reserve a conference room with Yahoo! Mail? (A flash back to my Lotus Notes days.)

That said, I don't expect Outlook is installed on anything at 1 Infinite Loop.

[Speedy]

It happens. University of Minnesota gave up its mail system and now uses Gmail.

[C(-)ris]

Speedy wrote:
It happens. University of Minnesota gave up its mail system and now uses Gmail.

The UofM system was IMAP and POP email only. In a very basic sense. It did not have calendar or contact support, storage, or synchronization. Even still, the conversion was not painless and transferring emails and contacts from a desktop client up to gmail is highly frustrating. Especially for those with a lot of data. I don't blame any of those people who didn't switch.

[NewtonMP2100]

so LOOK....before you leap.....??

[Filliam H. Muffman]

I think their "dogfood" would be a lot better if they had been forcing the developers to use it for the last four years. Yahoo! Mail! Is! A! Disaster! compared to Outlook in a somewhat well integrated Exchange Server environment. I know people that generate/receive 10 GB of email every six months. I can't imagine trying to manage and maintain required backups with the Yahoo! interface.

[deckeda]

I thought the part of the memo where the execs thought it was weird that people use their phones for email was especially painful to read.

Is there really no iOS or Android app for Yahoo! Mail yet? (And no, I haven't bothered to look but that seemed to be what the article said.)

[ztirffritz]

deckeda wrote:
I thought the part of the memo where the execs thought it was weird that people use their phones for email was especially painful to read.

Is there really no iOS or Android app for Yahoo! Mail yet? (And no, I haven't bothered to look but that seemed to be what the article said.)

Yahoo mail is one of the built-in options when setting up a new mail account in iOS. The list includes:
iCloud
Exchange
Google
Yahoo
AOL
Outlook.com (Hotmail)
'Other'

If you set up mail for Yahoo or Google, you basically enter your username and password and it handles everything else.

[JoeM]

As bad as yahoo mail is, it cannot compare in awfulness to office365/owa on Mac using any browser. Just godawful. They even took cmd+n from safari so that it opens a new email message instead of a new window. Believe me, you don't want to look at their POS UI. :comp:

[deckeda]

ztirffritz wrote:
[quote=deckeda]
I thought the part of the memo where the execs thought it was weird that people use their phones for email was especially painful to read.

Is there really no iOS or Android app for Yahoo! Mail yet? (And no, I haven't bothered to look but that seemed to be what the article said.)

Yahoo mail is one of the built-in options when setting up a new mail account in iOS. The list includes:
iCloud
Exchange
Google
Yahoo
AOL
Outlook.com (Hotmail)
'Other'

If you set up mail for Yahoo or Google, you basically enter your username and password and it handles everything else.
Oh I know you can setup iOS' Mail client for Yahoo. I was referring to what they are apparently referring to, a dedicated Yahoo mail client, like how there's a dedicated Gmail client for iOS. At any rate I'm presuming a dedicated app would have functionality the iOS native email app does not, but considering how basic the service is, I don't know what it would be?