.Mac users not alone Yahoo! outages.

Well, well, well, finally I feel like I am not the only person using a poor service. As I noted earlier the .Mac service so far this year as been horid. Today however my spirits were lifted when I read about the outages that Yahoo! users have been experiencing. Yahoo! welcome to the club. Man they are having similar problems lately, but there is a difference.

#1

They responded with this statement:

“For a brief period early this morning, certain areas of Yahoo were inaccessible to a portion of registered users due to software-related issues.” Yahoo spokeswoman Kiersten Hollars said in a statement. We have identified the issue and corrected it. We know that this may have caused some inconvenience, and we apologize to our users who might have been affected. We take these issues extremely seriously, and Yahoo is instituting new processes to protect against similar incidents from occurring again.”

Ok so umm that is better than what .Mac tells you:

06/20/2006
Email was unavailable for 25 minutes to some .Mac members.
6/15/2006
Sending .Mac mail on the web was unavailable for 2 hours to all .Mac members.

Ok so 1 point Yahoo! 0 points .Mac for the explanation.

#2

This is a big one, are you ready? The services Yahoo! is speaking of, is well free, .Mac is $99 a year. That is a big one.

Yahoo! 2 .Mac 0

CONCLUSION

Yahoo! has less problems, better explanations, and is free. .Mac has more problems, no explanations, and is $99 a year. But .Mac has syncing, and lets face it most people that get .Mac and stay with .Mac use it for that feature alone. I am not switching, but I cannot blame those who do.