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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.'"
Who wants to bet that it will ship by default with Vista? Or included into XP with a "critical update"?
Ahhh...the great dumpster continuum. Many a free computer will be found there. -- sowth (748135)
damn - how'd you type all that fast enough to still be the first post?
This space available.
He's got a list of pre-made groupthink rants about the 5 or 6 topics that make the headlines every day :-).
I agree, though, and thanks for the info on WebMail, didn't know about that one.
Favorite quote: "
Maybe, they should be sent to the same ESL class, that I went through, to know their own first (and, I suspect, only) language?
:P
:D
I realise this is extremely mean, given that English is not your first language, but:
Did they, teach you, to, make excessive, use of, commas at this, ESL school, of yours? Or are, you just, short of, breath?
Oh, and it's learn, not know.
But in fact, of course, you are quite correct. I upbraided the submitter's poor use of English myself, in fact. I only add this comment because I feel that if one is going to point out others' mistakes, one should ensure that one's own linguistic house, so to speak, is in order before so doing.
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The "your" vs "you're" issue drives me nuts, too, and I'm really not *that* old. Last week's episode of LOST used subtitles at one point, and they misused "you're" when they should have written "your". (I'd taped the episode and rewound it, just to be sure, but have since recorded over it.) I didn't know whether to laugh or cry, considering how many editors must have seen this before it aired on national television.
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