MS Fights Gmail With 2-GB Exchange Mailboxes

prawnonthebarbie writes "Microsoft is battling the trend for frazzled office workers to give up on Outlook and auto-forward all their mail to Gmail: the company is promising 2-GB mailboxes in Exchange 2007 rather than the piffling 50-MB mailboxes most workplaces have now. Speaking at the launch of Vista, Office, and Exchange in Singapore, Microsoft Product Marketing Manager Martha DeAmicis said Microsoft had built clustered replication into Exchange so corporate IT admins wouldn't be worrying about backing up big mailboxes to tape. However, its killer feature appears to be its plans to make those gigs of email available on Joe Officeworker's mobile phone."

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Use ELM

[Lord Apathy]

You fuckers wouldn't be having these problems if you was using elm and vt100 like email was supposed to be.

Mod me up, mod me down. Label me a troll or call me flamebait. Agree or dissagree with me, it don't matter. Nothing you can do will change the truth of my statement.

Re:People actually do this?

[catbutt]

Policies are put in place for a reason and an individual thinking they can act outside of the policy could risks losing their job. And a company thinking they can be fascist about everything risks losing their employees.

A free market is a beautiful thing.