M$ email incompatibility [Was: Re: e-mail sending from a hotmail account via evolution]

[Carl Friis-Hansen]

Erik Christiansen wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 08:12:26AM +0100, Carl Friis-Hansen wrote:
>> It is worth thinking about telling your friends and family that you 
>> changed to gmail or something non-M$, because only a week or two ago M$ 
>> declared war against browsers running on non M$ computers! It shows in 
>> Warmmail by letting you read all your mail, but being unable to compose 
>> new ones.
> 
> I don't understand what products are being referred to, or how the
> incompatibility is effected. Maybe M$ is just maintaining customary
> quality?

Warmmail was a joke: Hotmail is the right word.

>> I know there are ways around this, but it is still a declared 
>> war against the ever increasing thread from OSX and Linux.
> 
> Errm, is that sort of stuff legal in Europe now?

I am not aware that there should be filed any lawsuit against M$ due to 
this issue. After all it is free to anybody to use or not use Hotmail, 
it is a free sevice without any guarantees.

>> - So I hereby claim the right to also be frank and say: "Fight the war
>> on the right side of the front".
> 
> For my money,

What mony?  Please explain.

> if folk can't communicate with me 'cos they're encumbered
> by M$, it's their loss. (During 12 years at one company, management
> especially understood: "If that needs to reach Erik, we have to send it
> in plaintext or RTF.")

I do not feel lost, I am dealing with Windows on a daily bases, one of 
my 20 computer can but Win2k and I just try to be practical and helpful, 
not political or religious. It was meant as sound advice after my 
experience with many customers I have had recently, who eventually had 
to give up their long lived Hotmail accounts due to the issue I 
mentioned in my previous post. It was particular elderly people, who 
cannot cope with too many oddities and therefore using Ubuntu in the 
first place.

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