“Classic” Use of Email
We have an ongoing study with approximately 10,000 users that allows us to see how they interact with email at a macro level (anonymously of course). One of the interesting items we track in the study is which email program people are using. There are the obvious top-level major webmail and standalone clients – AOL/AIM webmail, Earthlink, Gmail, Windows Live Hotmail, and Yahoo! Mail along with Outlook Express and Outlook 2003/2007 – but we can also determine the particular subtype, which yields some interesting insight. Most webmail programs offer full-featured versions that are richer in graphics, chat links and companion [...]
