how do you want to be annoyed today?

You'll think that the makers of Windoze would know a thing or two about multi-tasking. Well.. you are so W.R.O.N.G.

I have several web-based email accounts from the likes of Yahoo!, Gmail, Mail.com, and sadly, Hotmail. The only reason why I still use Hotmail at all is because of MSN Messenger. Since it's not my primary email, it's useful that I can get alerts of the occasional new mail via the messenger. Other that this nice little feature, Hotmail basically sucks.

I don't often send email with it, so I only noticed a while ago that there seems to be a new way it handles sending attachments. Now, a little window pops up showing you that the uploading is in progress. That's all fine and dandy, except that this stupid and otherwise useless window insists on staying "on top" of all other applications.

Please stare at this window while we upload your file

I'm not really interested in staring at it until uploading completes. So I dragged it all the way to the bottom until only its titlebar is visible, and literally forced my way into using another application (by clicking several times on that application) while the uploading continues. This led to its constant blinking on the taskbar. Problem circumvented, but a minor annoyance nevertheless.

Then when the uploading was done, I got an unwelcome surprise of the Hotmail main window suddenly popping up before me again. And the other half of the sentence I was typing in the other application (which is this post) landed in my Hotmail message.

Just earlier today, I sent another email using Hotmail without attachments. Right after I clicked the Send button, the auto-formatting of the message box deleted my whole message and sent an empty email to my recipient. What's this? Cutting edge junk filtering?

Stupid, it's just plain stupid.