What if Microsoft had designed Gmail?
Google Blogoscoped asks the question
:
what if Microsoft, not Google, had created Gmail? What would be the differences in that web mail client for users today? What if we apply some of the same design rules that brought us Hotmail, for instance?
The answer is entertaining.
Here is a teaser, but as the post unfolds the mock-up screenshots get better and better:

Head on over
and have a look for yourself.
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Tags: GMAIL, Google, humour, interface design, microsoft, windows live

November 22nd, 2007 at 3:41 am
OMG, this article is hilarious LOL. It remembers me that wonderful video about what would happen if iPod was marketed by Microsoft (http://www.weshow.com/us/p/21400/microsoft_designs_the_ipod). Soooo nice! I can’t understand why some people prefer Hotmail… its just horrible. Gmail is much better!
November 22nd, 2007 at 8:41 pm
Hey, the preview pane is not that bad… ;-)