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Yahoo! Mail Beta is Beta No More

By Liam, October 9, 2007

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Yahoo last week begun quietly transitioning their new AJAX-based webmail interface from beta status. This is going on while Yahoo! is celebrating the 10th anniversary of Yahoo! Mail, the initial user interface of which was still in use up until recently. Yahoo! is the third webmail provider to rewrite their interface in AJAX, behind Google’s Gmail and Microsoft’s Windows Live Hotmail, and the second to create an interface that behaves like a desktop email client, behind WL Hotmail.

Users who wish to go back to the old interface may do so by clicking "Switch to Yahoo! Mail Classic..." under the Options menu.

Deep Thought’s Take: Well, it’s good to see Yahoo! finish with this project for now, unlike some people (Google.) As for the interface itself, it is certainly full-featured, if a bit sluggish and ad-heavy. That’s the price to pay for unlimited storage of email messages, I guess.

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