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(Unverified)Apr 21st 2008 10:09PM

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I prefer to have one place to access Hotmail, my own Exchange server (IMAP access) and an Exchange server for work. Got that in a webmail client that also doesn't require me to enter my passwords when I open it, and also doesn't time out on me?? I generally prefer OE over Outlook (03 and 07) because Outlook takes awhile to load its clunky interface, and crashes more often than OE.

For me, the argument for using OE is much like any MS product: it just works. No compile, no download, no install; it's there with the OS, I click through a few simple settings, and everything is set up faster than I can download a third party client. With MS phasing out OE for Hotmail, I'll have to download a client; so why pick Live over Thunderbird? It'll stay an MS world as long as MS holds the integration and simplicity card. Odd that they break the one big selling point they hold onto.

Nice earlier comment "(Nice job, Bill.)" He leaves the company and he's still credited with anything it does. 100 years from now in 2108 MS will come out with Windows UberVista-108 Deluxe, and people will still be cursing Gates' name whenever they find a bug. :D

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