Yahoo

Yahoo has been in the news lately for financial trouble, and getting spanked for not taking the Microsoft offer which, in retrospect, was probably pretty generous, and holding out for more, which was a major mistake (it seems).

I usually work through Yahoo, and for the last two months I have noticed it has become seriously slow at times - nothing close to its usual consistent speed. I'm guessing the cutbacks are hitting the performance, which would be counterproductive, because I'm about ready to ditch it for something reliably faster.

Has anyone else here used it for a long time and noticed this as well?

My email was hanging up a lot yesterday and today. Don't know if it's related to their troubles but very well may be. :hi:

it hung up so long that I just gave up on checking my mail at all.

but I found that after they went public and the corporate asshats took over it has been in a steady decline. I have a bunch of friends (10 - 15) that work for them and their comments are very mixed, some departments are doing well, or trying to, and others are going the way of HP. The only thing that is keeping most of their talent there is fear of the job market.

I will not be surprised when they move off shore entirely.

that I use for business purposes. I would hate to lose all the information I have stored in those accounts. Woudl you suggest I move to a different free email provider? and if so, which one? gmail?

new ideas coming, so I's say they are a safer bet. Paid web accounts are not really any better, just ask the Altavista/Briefcase subscribers.

The first thing I'd do is to export all your data into a file(s) on your disk and back that up (stay away from proprietary formats), because I know how much it sucks to lose years of data and contacts (learned the hard way of course, yes I'm an idiot).

thanks!!!

And that is the only site I have a crashing problem with.

Just think how much better the whole industry would be without that evil empire always screwing things up.

I think the crashes have more to do with Vista, but Yahoo isn't as good as it was with XP.

One of the primary goals of Vista, and all M$ OSes, is to be as incompatible with everybody else without bringing too many lawsuits. Monopolies are always bad.

and see if things improve...

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/