Cutting Edge: Yahoo Mail (beta)...Wow!

Speaking of cutting edge, if you want to see what cutting edge should be, try out Yahoo Mail, currently in Beta. You'll find it to be, hands down, the best web mail experience and interface, out there...and it's free.

It simply leaves Microsoft's Live Mail, and Google's GMail, in the dust! Compared to Yahoo Mail, they look, extremely dated. Here's the rub:

Microsoft Outlook is by far the de facto king of email client interfaces. It's emulated, and outright copied by every other mail client, or web mail/Ajax type provider out there. Yahoo mail is no exception, it has the Outlook "look". So it begs the question - why doesn't Microsoft emulate it's own creation for Live Mail? They have a stunning example in the latest Outlook web mail (that's a double Wow) client - and are quite capable of winning the web mail crown hands down!

Note to Microsoft: you've got it, flaunt it! In this particular arena, you should be the "king", and not (once again) settle for "me too" by being late to the game.