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[Hotmail] Check email button

Submitted by eye on March 22, 2009 to Usability

When I want to check my Hotmail for new email messages, I need to refresh the entire page (F5), or click in some folder.

I think that would be cool if they could put an AJAX button to check for new email messages, so I wouldn't need to refresh the entire page anymore. =)

A button/link to "check for new email messages", without need for refresh the entire page. (Using AJAX, of course)

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Discussion (4 comments)

eye wrote on March 22, 2009, 8:37pm

Changed title from [[Hotmai] Check email button] to [[Hotmail] Check email button].
Added new image attachment.

.Chris wrote on March 23, 2009, 4:54am

They want us to click the inbox.

not everyone thinks that is "cool" microsoft

JTaylor69 wrote on March 23, 2009, 6:44pm

Yeah, this might confuse new users to Hotmail too.
They may be wondering why a new email hasn't arrived because they do not know that they have to click inbox.
Putting "check mail" or something similair will be useful and easy to understand :)

brianm76 wrote on March 24, 2009, 12:47am

I agree that it is easy to just click Inbox however I can also see that novice users or new users to Hotmail that this is not very intuitive and a check mail button would be easy to add and would improve the service to those new or saavy users.

teaumaz wrote on April 20, 2009, 12:52pm

Why not just have it check for new e-mail every 10 minutes or so? Then we would be automatically notified of new messages. It is something I still miss a lot in WLHotmail. Not everybody has messenger or WLM installed, you know.

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