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Windows Live Goes to College
Tobias writes "BetaNews is reporting that Microsoft has struck a deal with 72 different colleges to use Windows Live for their email services. The problem with this is that Windows Live does not support any browsers besides IE 6, does not support POP or IMAP, and does not support email forwarding." From the article: "The Redmond company believes that catching the students early on will turn them into life-long users of Windows Live. They would likely create a Windows Live Messenger account, start a blog and organize their favorites under this e-mail account -- especially if they plan to continue using it, Microsoft says."
This is exactly what I put on my feedback form when I opted out of Live Mail. It's basically an advertising page with a little bit or webmail thrown in as an afterthought. Whatever they do now it's clear what they want to achieve so I'm off to GMail.
If gmail shift to enforce advertising, I'll run my own web server
Not to start a flame or war, but you do realize Google has disclosed they data mine(Automated Reading) all incoming and outgoing GMail? That way they can better 'market' information to you as well as classify you when your information is provided to advertisers?
They also link Data mined through all your GMail activity and cross it back to your IP and will use that data to include all your google.com searches.
Google is a good example, as evil as MS is or looks, there are always companies that are worse.
Good luck with the GMail, and if your personal privacy or mail privacy is a concern, I would find another email provider.