What if Gmail had been designed by Microsoft?

The heading of this post is the title of a satirical piece over at Google Blogoscoped. Needless to say, it isn’t in praise of how Microsoft does things. Here’s the opening premise:

Today I want to ponder 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?

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