Is this that big of deal? MS struck a deal with those universities to host all the email from students within their new Hotmail UI. The UI is in Beta, and they clearly state that they plan to fully support Firefox and other browsers. Yeah, they don't currently support IMAP, forwarding, etc, but don't you think there's a much bigger chance they will once they have all those students advocating such functionality? I'm not sure what uni you are thinking of, but my experience with university students is that their needs are very simple. When they access mail, they usually have internet access.
Users aren't force to convert to using other MS products just because they are already using the mail client. MS just has better access to those customers to offer them those services. People can still choose what they really want.
So many people dawg on the service and say the performance sucks and that they're copying GMail. I've had zero issues with perf, and... Who cares who came first? There's always a "first", and there are always tons of companies that follow, not just MS.
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Is this that big of deal? MS struck a deal with those universities to host all the email from students within their new Hotmail UI. The UI is in Beta, and they clearly state that they plan to fully support Firefox and other browsers. Yeah, they don't currently support IMAP, forwarding, etc, but don't you think there's a much bigger chance they will once they have all those students advocating such functionality? I'm not sure what uni you are thinking of, but my experience with university students is that their needs are very simple. When they access mail, they usually have internet access. Users aren't force to convert to using other MS products just because they are already using the mail client. MS just has better access to those customers to offer them those services. People can still choose what they really want. So many people dawg on the service and say the performance sucks and that they're copying GMail. I've had zero issues with perf, and ... Who cares who came first? There's always a "first", and there are always tons of companies that follow, not just MS.