April 21, 2008 12:00 PM PDT

Webware 100 winner: Yahoo Mail

by Webware staff

Yahoo Mail is Yahoo's free, Web-based e-mail service. The newest release feels a lot like a desktop e-mail application: there's a preview pane, and messages can be dragged-and-dropped between folders. Right-clicking the mouse does mail-specific things instead of performing browser actions. There's no longer any concept of paging through your in-box. You can see all of your messages, no matter how many there are, in one big, scrolling list.

Besides e-mail, Yahoo Mail offers users built in instant messaging, weather reports, and an RSS reader that users can parse through as they would their e-mail.

Winner: Yahoo Mail (Mail.Yahoo.com)
Category: Communication

Winners in this category:: AIM; Gmail; iChat; meebo; Microsoft Windows Live Messenger; ooVoo; Pidgin; Skype; Windows Live Hotmail; Yahoo Mail; Back to the Webware 100 Winners page

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