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University Migrating Students to Windows Live Mail?
An anonymous reader wonders: "My University has begun a migration of student email services to Windows Live Mail. All students will be forced onto the system by the end of the semester, but it doesn't support POP or IMAP. Because of that limitation, the only freely available mail client it supports is Windows Live Desktop, which is only available on Windows and I'm worried its ads might be vulnerable to malware just like the ones in Live Messenger. I depend on my mail client and I am concerned about this, because we're not allowed to forward our mail but are responsible for information received there from the University and classes, I'm not on a Windows machine, and I don't have the time to regularly check for web-mail, during the day." What are the pros and cons of such a move for a mid-sized or large college? If you were in charge of the communications of a such a university, would you outsource [please note the vendor neutrality, here] your e-mail?
Has anyone else's tech department migrated to Windows Live Mail? Why did they make that decision, and how did it work out for the students? For those of us who have already switched our accounts with no way to revert, what ways exist to get around the lack of POP and still use a client? Is there any hope we can get the University to change back or Microsoft to implement POP before the semester's end? How does your University manage their email?"
The IT department should all be shot. Simple as that
95% of all computer errors occur between chair and keyboard (TM)
Windows Live Mail = Hotmail. Get it in your browser. Assuming this isn't a made-up story it seems to me the U in question would have to be some really backwards institution, like a Fundie "Christian" school or something...
Caveat Utilitor
In many (most? all?) cases, Microsoft is providing university student Windows Live Mail hosing *For Free*. Outsourcing email to Microsoft is a no-brainer to the bean counters and overworked IT departments. Let MS take over the email hosting to free up university resources. Also, having no POP or IMAP support greatly reduces the number of tech support calls to the campus IT helpdesk. "Install IE7, go to the webmail site" vs "here's how to configure eudora/outlook/mail.app/etc for your specific OS version".
.... why the fuck did the United States not complete its prosecution of Microsoft and prevent these illegal business practices.
Because the US population elected the republicans, the friends of business and corruption. They could hardly go on prosecuting a company for a few minor attempts at making too much profit when they were about start a religous crusade so the oil companies (owned by the president and his chums) could do the same thing.
Go on moderate this as a troll, but it is not. There are a great deal of people in the rest of the world who are becoming shit scared of the US and its vast military and I am one of them.
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