Race to dominate the new generation e-mail service

The world's largest Internet utility companies such as Microsoft, Yahoo and Google are working hard to become the first to offer improved access, navigation and data entry in new email products.

Microsoft and Yahoo continue to test the improved email system while Google occasionally adds a few features to Gmail to lead the race.

The world's number-one search move allows users to access the mailbox, view, send e-mail and attachments via mobile phone or directly to the phone number stored in a Gmail account. . Earlier this month, Google equipped the RSS feature called "Clips", enabling users to update content from favorite websites.

However, according to Microsoft and Yahoo, their upcoming e-mail program will all "bring more than integrated RSS links ." Drag-and-drop between folders, improved message navigation and a host of other features will make customers sign in more and longer.

The changes taking place in the mail space of the two corporations are in part due to the popularity of broadband and also the answer to the impressive launch of Gmail last year.

Foad Fadaghi, research director of Frost & Sullivan (USA), affirmed that the web-based e-mail generation will offer superior functionality over the server e-mail system. "Many small businesses have considered new products a real alternative to server-based e-mail technology, especially when capacity issues have been resolved," Fadaghi said.

Realizing that, instead of adding features to Hotmail, Microsoft rebuilt the system from scratch. The Windows Live Mail program has more features than Outlook as well as integrated blogs and instant messaging (IM). Meanwhile, Yahoo's beta attracted great attention thanks to its user interface that feels like a desktop environment on an e-mail platform.

However, Fadaghi stated that, although the feature battle is taking place strongly among 3 "tiger", no corporation will really dominate the market.