Hotmail hodgepodge

Am I the only one frustrated by the new ‘enhancements’ to Hotmail under Windows Live?

I’m sure I’m not mentioning all the bizarre new functions, but here’s what’s really got me tearing (the rest of) my hair out.

Safari users will know that even with Leopard installed, Hotmail replies jumble the recipients’ original message into a liquidised mess of garbled text. It’s fine in Firefox and I haven’t tried it in Explorer as I’m a Mac user, but I imagine it works. Trouble is, us Mac converts like Safari.

The auto spell check is American English and even with an American other half I find this frustrating. Under OPTIONS / LANGUAGE I can only find one version of English. But Portuguese speakers get the option of saying whether they are from Brazil or Portugal. All this despite the fact that the home page knows I am in the UK and gives me the correct weather for London, England.

You had better not be an atheist and try and spell Christianity with a lower caps ‘c’ either! Personal protest or not - spell check will say you are wrong.

-- and don’t even go there with that scrolling advertisement that you have to try and beat before it covers up the SEND button. I won’t mention the advertiser by name, by after having been redirected to their web site countless times, I would never never never subscribe to their phone services.

Spleen vented.

Almost forgot – the new colour themes option is nice.