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[News] Microsoft's Hotmail Snubs Free Software, GNU/Linux

  • Subject: [News] Microsoft's Hotmail Snubs Free Software, GNU/Linux
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:17:58 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Hotmail doesn't work with Firefox 2.0: Microsoft answers to Linux users "Switch
to Outlook Express"

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| I’m the increasingly discontent owner of an Hotmail account (don’t laught, I 
| subscribed back when Hotmail wasn’t owned by Microsoft). Recently, in order 
| to compete with Google on the Web, Hotmail’s interface was overhauled: it now 
| has a “classic” interface, which works reasonably well but is still rather 
| limited, and a supposedly “Full” interface that should make it the equal of 
| sites like Google Apps and Yahoo Mail/Calendar/etc.     
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/hotmail_doesnt_work_with_firefox_2


Related:

Hotmail engine overhaul

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| The redesign effort, even its more ambitious aspects, is not
| a total wash, however.
| 
| [...]
| 
| With Hotmail, Microsoft was at the end of its development rope.
| Every new feature basically had to be "hacked" into the code.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6181819-2.html?tag=st.next


A Hybrid Approach to E-Mail: The Best of Both Worlds

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| Given corporations' existing investments and their potential need to
| support additional Microsoft Exchange-compatible applications in the
| future, this hybrid open/proprietary approach will only work if it
| allows users to drop in an e-mail server without making changes to
| desktops or infrastructure.
| 
| [...]
| 
| A better approach employs a product that is compatible at the
| network-protocol level with the existing infrastructure. Outlook
| on the desktop will "think" it is talking to Exchange when it is
| really talking to the new Linux e-mail server, and end users do
| not know they are on a different server. IT professionals get a
| Linux e-mail server with higher performance, that uses lower-cost
| storage, and that works with existing datacenter applications such
| as Active Directory.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/57232.html


Hotmail's antispam measures snuff out legit emails, too

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| Hotmail users and email server admins, beware: you may be unknowingly
| caught in the crossfire of Microsoft's war on spam. Unintended
| casualties include legitimate emails from domains with
| well-established reputations, which are systematically blocked
| with absolutely no notice and little recourse.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/01/hotmail_friendly_fire/


Hotmail still riddled with spam

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| Microsoft has admitted that up to 98 per cent of messages sent to
|                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| Hotmail addresses are spam. 
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| 
| [...]
| 
| The findings will disappoint Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, who
| predicted at the 2004 Davos World Economic Forum that spam would
| be "eliminated" within two years. 
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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2188226/hotmail-riddled-spam-admits


It’s ME vs. MICROSOFT - Who Will Win ?

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| Now, the only problem with #1 is that IT DOES NOT WORK. When Microsoft 
| blackholes your email, or bounces it with “550 Your e-mail was rejected for 
| policy reasons on this gateway.“, no amount of client whitelisting is going 
| to help (I tried it). This leaves me with option #2 - well I say “F-You 
| Microsoft, I’m not paying for YOUR STUPID MISTAKES!”    
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http://success.grownupgeek.com/index.php/2007/09/28/its-me-vs-microsoft-who-will-win/


If Intent Can Be Proven, Microsoft Could Face Millions Of Mail Fraud Charges

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| The final results bore out the "conventional wisdom." If emails were donuts,
| Hotmail would be HomerSimpsonMail. I don't need to reiterate the figures,
| there they are in blue and red. But for a Hotmail account to destroy up to
| 81% of all emails with attachments prior to their delivery to a "generic" ISP
| email account is nothing short of absurd, as these Hotmail accounts were not
| the free variety, but the fully paid ones. Compare those figures to the ones
| where the generic ISP email accounts exchanged emails with attachments and
| you will clearly see the difference. The worst performance was in making 2%
| Vanish.
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http://hubpages.com/hub/Hotmail_Fails_To_Deliver_Up_To_81_Of_All_Attachment_Emails


Botnet army' behind tenfold rise in 'attachment' spam 

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| "No one but the spam group knows how many PCs they can control with this 
| spambot, it is assumed to be a high five figure number. If each of the PCs is 
| instructed to send 200-300 spam messages containing a PDF attachment the 
| spammers can send hundreds or millions of spam messages in a day - equivalent 
| to 25 percent of all spam sent on a given day."    
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http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13866&Itemid=1054


Vista: What To Do When You Cannot Delete a Message in Windows Mail

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| A number of users are experiencing problems with Windows Mail and
| deleting messages from the Inbox and Outbox. The message will first
| become unviewable in the reading pane and will then generate an
| error when you try to delete it.
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http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/2270/vista_what_to_do_when_you_cannot_delete_a_message_in_windows_mail


Microsoft looking into Hotmail, Messenger problems

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| Microsoft engineers were looking into problems with Windows Live
| Hotmail and Live Messenger on Thursday after users reported
| problems getting onto the services.
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http://news.com.com/2061-10805_3-6175597.html


Microsoft shipped OneCare unfinished?

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| Since shipping in May, OneCare has failed industry tests and exposed
| users to attack because of a security flaw in the antivirus engine.
| The application also incorrectly flagged Gmail as a virus and in some
| cases quarantined or even deleted complete in-boxes when a single
| e-mail was laden with a virus. 
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http://news.com.com/2061-10789_3-6168629.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news


Microsoft is the world's biggest cause of zombie remailers

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| In China, it would take about one and one-half years wages (for the
| average Chinese) to buy a legitimate copy of Windows Vista. If you
| could find it here.
| 
| Microsoft is the biggest cause of zombie remailers in the world,
| because they make noises, but do not do anything to address the
| real digital inequities in the world. 
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38202

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