Rumours suggest GMail is getting a revamp. I hope it doesn't try and be too clever and make it worse. I hated certain features in gmail like it auto connecting emails into conversations. Luckily you can disable these to make it into a more traditional application. Hopefully they won't break, or try and add anything unnecessarily clever.

http://www.bgr.in/news/google-report...l-for-desktop/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...ZE-option.html