It's definitely Holiday time: slow day, now news, my feed-reader is empty... took a walk outside, did not meet anyone. But for a minute I got confused, thinking we're heading into April Fools' Day, not Thanksgiving. It's all because of Philipp Lenssen's brilliant post: What If Gmail Had Been Designed by Microsoft?
I won't spoil the fun, I want you to read his piece, here's just a little teaser. Starting point, regular gmail:
He then rebrands Gmail to something longer, like Windows Live Gmail, change the URL to the more professional looking http://by114w.bay114.gmail.live.com/mail/mail.aspx?rru=home, adds new panes, breaks up messages from conversation threads into their individual parts, adjust the spam filter to be a bit more MS-like ... etc. Here's the final result:
Go read it. Tomorrow he plans to discuss "What if Microsoft had designed Windows Vista." Artful play with the words. You could read it like this: "What if Microsoft had designed Windows Vista" - but we know that is the case, so that leaves us with the only possible interpretation: "What if Microsoft had designed Windows Vista."
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