December 20th, 2008 | 
Author: 
Microsoft yesterday rolled back a recent change to Windows Live Hotmail, more than a month after users had complained bitterly about a new interface the company unveiled in September.
“We heard many users say that they had trouble navigating through Hotmail, especially if they had a smaller monitor,” Microsoft’s Hotmail team wrote on its company blog. “We’ve decided to make a significant change in our product: Hotmail will scroll like classic Hotmail.”
Hotmail users who logged onto the service also received a message alerting them to the change. “We’ve changed the way that scrolling works for users who have the reading pane turned off. It’ll look more like Classic Hotmail if your reading pane is off,” the message read.
Hundreds of users had complained about the new interface on earlier blog entries by the Hotmail developers, upset over the interface redesign and angry about glitches that prevented them from reading their mail. Some also dinged Hotmail’s new look and navigation…
Posted in PC Software
