Thursday, April 24, 2008
Microsoft Again Forces Upgrade
Oh those boys (and gals) and Microsoft, always asking us to upgrade to new versions of applications whether we want to or not. We've seen it dozens of time with Office and Excel before, but now they've screwed up my nice little Outlook Express.I received that Big Brother Gates et al have been tracking that I'm an Outlook Express user, and they wanted to let me know that Outlook Express will become useless as an organizer of Hotmail emails.
The company promises that a new free application is even better. Here's what's insane. Microsoft is no longer supporting their own proprietary messaging protocol (DAV). So instead of switching to one of the other industry standards that would allow me to continue using Hotmail on Outlook Express, they are using another proprietary protocol called DeltaSynch. This new Live Hotmail client can use the standard POP3 and IMAP to let you read email from other services though. Thanks for playing nicely with others.
But what of my thousands of messages that I've stored in Outlook Express folders over the past few years? I have to manually import them all. There goes that half hour of my life. And of course, I have to reboot my computer since the Live Mail application requires a restart.
The same goes for setting up my multiple email account to be forwarded into Live Mail.
Microsoft's arm twisting is all to familiar. At least this time the software is free, but with all of the steps required to get back to where I was before, this is like cushioning a fall with a bed of nails.
Posted By John Gartner at 01:12 AM
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