April 25, 2006
ARGH
Once again, a charming example of the whole "one step forward, two steps back" phenomenon. Those of us who care about such things have been happily registering that more and more hip and cool college students have been switching over to browsers other than IE, and have shared all sorts of lovely thoughts about the progression of technology. Then this happens: Microsoft Sends Windows Live to College. This might sound all peachy-keen, until you read about some of the limitations of Microsoft Live:
- It only works in IE 6 and higher
- It doesn't support mail forwarding
- It doesn't support IMAP or POP
- Microsoft reserves the right to turn on ads after you graduate
The reason for Microsoft pushing this out to all 72 colleges? The article softly hints at it... it is of course, all about promotion.
The Redmond company believes that catching the students early on will turn them into life-long users of Windows Live.
Yeah, good old microsoft...
Posted by lara at April 25, 2006 01:45 PM
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Well, good ol' Google is doing the exact same thing, so how could Microsoft possible not make the same move?
And, it does work on Firefox...just not 100% pretty and functional, but it does still work none the less. And, they are working on a fully 100% compatible version for Firefox/Opera/Safari just because it no longer makes sense to ignore roughly 10% of web browsers.
It's not all that bad a of a thing if you really get into cost vs. value comparisons.
Posted by: Jus at April 25, 2006 05:23 PM
i guess those are good things. however, i don't like the commercial link to such a huge company somehow. perhaps i'm being overly idealistic...
Posted by: lara at April 25, 2006 10:10 PM
