What If Gmail Had Been Designed by Microsoft?  —  Today I want to ponder the question: what if Microsoft, not Google, had created Gmail?  What would be the differences in that web mail client for users today?  What if we apply some of the same design rules that brought us Hotmail, for instance?

Source:   Google Blogoscoped

Author:   Philipp Lenssen

Link:   http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-11-20-n35.html