I spoke to 2 senior developers for Microsoft Livemail at CES in Las Vegas. Hotmail will be rebranded to Livemail with a 2GB storage space. The frontend looks like the familiar GMail.
I wonder why everyone tom **** and harry is going after the gmail look. I don't understand it. I mean, can they not be original and make their own look?
Ok, I used the word D!ck, but as a name of a person, not anything else, and it was starred out.....
I asked them that. They initially denied that it resembles GMail. I showed them a Google book that I had with a screenshot of GMail and then they said, "Oh yeah". I point out that Gmail is "flat" with no shadows and that the Microsoft GUI guidelines is a bevelled 3D with shadows look.