October 4th, 2009, 8:22PM in No Category by Marc LequimeView Comments
Google Mail users will be unhappy to learn of the loss of an incredibly useful service: Xoopit. It’s pretty much completely obvious, and its not being done subtly – Microsoft’s influence on the CEO of Yahoo! is becoming too noticeable. First the takeover of the search section of Yahoo; now the removal of a useful service.
From Download Squad:
Xoopit is a service that turns Gmail into a powerful media browser, letting you quickly view your attachments. Since Yahoo acquired it, though, it’s been available to Yahoo Mail users, and now Yahoo! is looking to make it exclusive. Xoopit will become the My Photos feature of Yahoo Mail, and it’s being pulled out of Gmail completely.
Download Squad, Jan Hathaway
Microsoft – you aren’t fooling anyone. If the way you want to go about things is to remove a useful service that plenty of people liked, it isn’t going to make them flock away from Google. It’ll just make Google release a similar service for its users.
Who could possibly be to blame for this? Many claims are going for the very controversial CEO of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, perhaps one of the main reasons Microsoft’s success (and Bill Gates’ fortune) have been steadily declining.
Silly Steve Balmer. Tricks are for kids.
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