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Hotmail On Your Desktop
thomas2you writes "Microsoft has just started its beta testing on a new program, made to have Microsoft's hotmail on your own desktop according to an article on CNET. It's going to be free software, you're going to be able to manage multiple accounts and they are attempting to include the ability to also just control all pop3 and smtp accounts you have, including Google's gmail as well as Windows Live Mail, the successor to Hotmail. From the article, 'The move is a shift for the Hotmail business, which in the past, has charged users who wanted to read their mail using desktop software, rather than a Web browser. Microsoft charged $20 and up for its paid service.'"
Finally!
Swedish plasma phys. PhD student; MSc EE; knows maths, programming, electronics; finance interest; seeks opportunities
Microsoft: We appologize for this inconvenience. We meant to call the "Competitors" table "Future Competitors" and apparently the entry you mention is not the one in error. This will be fixed shortly.
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what is hotmail?
As I read the summary, I could not help but be amazed by the submitter's poor command of English. It is clear from the nature of his errors that he is a native speaker of English, but it is news to me that capital letters are now optional on proper nouns and at the start of sentences, that "your" is a valid replacement for "you're", that you can just string any number of clauses together with an "and"...I could go on. The its/it's thing. C'mon people! I suppose it's just that I'm not keeping up with the younger generation these days...
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I am left wondering how old the submitter is, and worrying about just how bad the education system is in $country_of_origin.
Perhaps we should set up a charity and a PayPal account - "Help A Geek: Educating Slashdotters in Basic English". What say?
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Hell No.
Sorry - that's two words. I'll release the patch in a month or two.
What?
A Windows mail client. Very cutting-edge. For 1990.
http://alternatives.rzero.com/
First a new version of Paint, and now this! I can't wait for Vista to hit the shelves!
So now it's a MS program, so you can't block the ads using browser plug-ins? Damn, sign me up now! Now I can't even stop myself from being able to punch the monkey to win an X-box, no matter how hard I try!
Yeah, wasn't Hotmail just a phase in high school? I think it was right between Mambo #5 and the Y2K 'Crisis'...
Self-referential Sigs are cool on /. these days...
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"Microsoft's hotmail on your own desktop according to an article on CNET. it's going to be free software and your going to be able to manage multiple accounts and they are attempting to include the ability to also just control all pop3 and smtp accounts you have..."
Is this going to be a re-branded Outlook Express?