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August 10, 2010

Microsoft Tech Advice: Hotmail is broken Sir, what do I do? Tell them to use Google Chrome!

Microsoft just made a dumb move. I decided to recreate how I think the conversation went between the tech guy and his boss. Tech guy: It seems a lot of customers are complaining about the new Hotmail. Bugs throughout the site, some of them can’t even log in. Boss: Fix it. Tech guy: That will take a few weeks, what do we do in the mean time. Boss: It works fine on Google’s Chrome, get them to use that. Tech guy: I don’t know about that, don’t you think we should focus on Internet Explorer? Boss: Who’s the boss? Tech guy: You are… Boss: Exactly. After thousands of complaints from customers over their new Hotmail interface, Microsoft has suggested that some users switch to Google’s Chrome. To be fair Internet Explorer seems to work fine, it’s mostly Firefox and Safari users (many of whom won’t use IE) that are affected. So it kind of makes sense. It’s still funny though.

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Kole McRae

Kole McRae is made from the parts of lesser writers. He was built to destroy Ty Dunitz but ended up just writing tech news and eating Ramen noodles all day. He writes for Techi and Geek Juice.

10 thoughts on “Microsoft Tech Advice: Hotmail is broken Sir, what do I do? Tell them to use Google Chrome!

  1. why anyone uses IE is beyond me

    It has always supported less graphics formats and had more errors displaying pages than any other browser
    Compatibility Mode ? Whats that all about – I have never needed this in any other browser (I don’t even think its there) and it never seems to work anyway

    Microsoft will always describe these problems as being caused by outdated web pages but every other browser seems to cope

    Give up on IE it is dying

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