Rapidly mutating deadly virus wrote:
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/1397...cUlqUB5kEjtBAF
>
> QUOTE
> A major upgrade to Gmail is getting the thumbs down from users who complain
> that the new version is extremely slow, often fails to load pages and even
> crashes their browsers.
>
> People have flooded discussion forums with complaints since Google began
> "upgrading" users about two weeks ago to the new version, popularly
> referred to in the blogosphere as Gmail 2.0.
>
> However, others expressed worry that Google at some point will phase out
> access to the "old" Gmail without having fully resolved problems.
>
> -QUOTE
>
>
> This is why corporations will not switch to web-based applications. THEY
> want to be in control of the software their employees use, not Google. It
> would be too easy for Google to screw a company by unleashing junk like
> this on them and effectively shutting down their email, word processing or
> whatever app.
>

Odd. Gmail seems pretty much the same to me. Yahoo mail on the other
hand has definitely become almost unusable. Maybe their new $19.99/year
"yahoo plus" is better. Unfortunately, I'll never know.