SEATTLE – Microsoft have announced the latest revamp to its Hotmail service is expected to bring the free web mail clients users base up to “ten or more people at least.”
A spokesman said by updating the interface with a new clean and minimalist look, adding safeguards against spam they were bringing the service firmly up to date with 2009 standards.
The overhaul is seen among certain circles as the biggest shift in web based email client software technology since “web based email client software” was a commonly used phrase.
New look
Speaking to journalists, CEO Steve Ballmer said he expected users to sign up in their ones “or even twos” as a handful of people temporarily forget they have already been using Gmail for the past six years.
“There is no doubt in our minds we created an email system that’s never been seen before if you’ve never used anything other than Aol mail.”
In addition to a brand new interface, Microsoft’s email will also be rebranded under the Outlook name and bring with it a host of benefits according to Ballmer.
The Redmond based company are confident that the handful of people still putting Hotmail email on job applications will now be called back for an interviews.
The computer software giant was confident that with a new Outlook name, they were on course to achieve user numbers surpassing their 2005 high of a couple dozen admitted users.
“We’ve shelved the negative connotations of the old Hotmail name and replaced it with a name to stimulate feelings that really resonate with today’s hip web mail user: the 9-5 office environment.”
User feedback
Some of the current half dozen Hotmail users have however, expressed some skepticism following the change.
“I been a loyal Hotmail user for a long time so obviously I’s weary of any technological progression,” said farmer Simon Watson, who also swears by VHS.
“The new look is different I’ll give ‘em that but I just don’t like the look o’ it.”
“It’s may be 2012 but some o’ us still like things the way there where in the 90s.”
In related news the company said they would soon have details on their new tablet operating system as soon “as we know what Apple is doing with theirs.”
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