How Many Engineers Does It Take To Make Hotmail Work In Google Chrome?

With yesterday's release of IE8 RC , I was reminded of an annoyance my partner had when I first installed Google Chrome because she was unable to use her Hotmail (short for the official name Windows Live Hotmail and not to be confused with Windows Live Mail) account properly using the new browser. I checked if the e-mail service - among the most popular webmail services in the world - was working better now that Chrome is a couple of months old, out of beta and - admittedly slowly - taking bits of market share on a daily basis. No such luck. Apparently, with Microsoft's latest upgrade of the Windows Live Mail service, things got really broken, causing users to be unable to write, reply to or forward e-mail messages. Evidently, these are essential functionalities that shouldn't take a company of that size to fix within a day or two. So why doesn't it still work after weeks and weeks of complaints ( see here also ) by Google Chrome users who still make use of their old Hotmail accounts for sending and forwarding messages to their friends?