I think live mail can not compete with gmail at the moment even if they offer more storage space. The more space you have the more organization you should have. Organizing emails is just painful with live mail, you can't do simple operations like tagging emails, filtering, grouping without going through loads of hoops.
The space live mail offers is pointless, once you start to fill your email up you will find it is nearly impossible to manage the emails.
Actually students also account for a portion of Office licenses (no where as big as big companies but still can't be ignored). Many university purchase student Office licenses in bulks and MS Office is the preferred suit a lot of the times. A lot of my profs stresses how much problem and headache they've had from students who use Open Office and submits something that is unreadable. They have mentioned a lot of the time the files looks different than the original Open Office version once they are opened with Microsoft Office. Most tutorials and labs are demonstrated with MS Office as well, also making Open Office less ideal.
As an university student, I would rather use something that I know will be right than taking a gamble with my future. I am sure the consequences will becomes more severe once I start working.
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I think live mail can not compete with gmail at the moment even if they offer more storage space. The more space you have the more organization you should have. Organizing emails is just painful with live mail, you can't do simple operations like tagging emails, filtering, grouping without going through loads of hoops. The space live mail offers is pointless, once you start to fill your email up you will find it is nearly impossible to manage the emails.
Actually students also account for a portion of Office licenses (no where as big as big companies but still can't be ignored). Many university purchase student Office licenses in bulks and MS Office is the preferred suit a lot of the times. A lot of my profs stresses how much problem and headache they've had from students who use Open Office and submits something that is unreadable. They have mentioned a lot of the time the files looks different than the original Open Office version once they are opened with Microsoft Office. Most tutorials and labs are demonstrated with MS Office as well, also making Open Office less ideal. As an university student, I would rather use something that I know will be right than taking a gamble with my future. I am sure the consequences will becomes more severe once I start working.