14 DAY TRIAL // The Sunnyvale super giant Yahoo released the final version of Yahoo Mail, the mail technology which is supposed to represent the best solution for a web-based mail service. Since it rolled out the final product, all the accounts were included in the upgrade process but some of us are still using a beta mail solution which obviously has less features that the final flavor. Yahoo said the transition takes a while because there is a huge number of accounts to be updated so all you can do is wait for your turn.
In a blog post published today Ryan, the Community Manager for Yahoo Mail, said the transition process is currently in progress and will need some time as Yahoo needs to update no less than 255 million accounts.
"As has been mentioned before, there are A LOT of accounts to transition: 255 million (according to comScore). All of these user accounts are divided up into hundreds of farms. In advance of every release, we go through extensive internal QA, followed up by selective roll-outs to large numbers of employees (extended QA), but since we cannot replicate every possible scenario of user behavior, browser selection, computer hardware, operating system, and feature usage, we gradually roll the product out to make sure everything goes as smoothly as possible," the Yahoo official wrote.
In case you didn't hear, the final version of Yahoo Mail comes with lots of goodies for the registered users. First of all, it offers unlimited storage capacity so you're no longer forced to remove some of your messages in order to make some free space for other emails. Secondly, the new Yahoo Mail comes with in-built Yahoo Messenger, allowing you to communicate on the Internet without leaving mail's interface.
"As we roll the updated code out to each farm, our engineers are closely monitoring for unforeseen issues. It's also a fairly complex process because of the different types of Mail accounts on our system," the Yahoo official added.