Achtung! The new yahoo mail has arrived!

Some of us have been fortunate enough to get a sneak peek into thefuture of yahoo mail, in its beta version which is out for testing now. It has an outlook-ish appearance, a boon for those who are extremely fond of the microsoft's email client.

This outlook like appearance comes with an auto refresh, it claims to
check your email every 10 minutes. Isn't it something taken for
granted on gmail? It wasn't till google came out with its email
innovation. This new interface supports drag and drop, and allows you
to manage your message better.

As with yahoo, it has got a sleek appearance, and can give some thing
interesting to look for. For people looking for beauty rather than
functionality, yahoo mail was always welcome.

It supports only the latest firefox browser (which is my default for
Internet browsing), and (of course) IE. Which means older browsers
will have to make do with the old version. But that's a penalty of not
being up to date.

It supports tabbed browsing, your email messages (or even the inbox)
can open in a new tab. Which means for those accustomed to opening
emails in a new window, will have to open in a new tab instead.

the overall speed seems to have increased. I guess the older version
reloaded every bit of data on the browser every time you clicked
refresh. But now, only the relevant part is refreshed.

It was a long awaited change. With people migrating towards gmail,
yahoo was only a secondary account. This change may not call users
back, but will at least check migration.