>
> Hotmail is well known in the IT industry for poor security (their servers
> get hacked all the time), gathering far too much information for marketing
> purposes, and, ironincally, the site doesn't use a single piece of Microsoft
> software! Furthermore, the domain name was renewed and paid for by a Linux
> geek because he wanted to get his mail and the site was down because
> Microsoft forgot to renew the domain name!
>
I know. I don't use it much. I mostly use it to send personal messages
from websites at work - Would they REALLY prefer I use my corporate
account for that? I don't think so - if I am not speaking for the company
I use hotmail. BUt it ws THEIR decision to install thelatest Internet
Exploiter browser. And while Hotmail may not run on Microsoft Microsot is
SUPPORTING it by making it part of MSN and directly supporting it in the
browser.I don't have to jump through hoops to switch between Outlook and
Hotmail as the maile my browser uses. DId you know there are actually
businesses that encourage staff to get webmail accounts just to keep
personal stuff (and spam) out of their corporate ones, limiting their
liability? Now, if they could just get IE to support another free mail
service as readily. The IT department is so short staffed though (we
compete with the higher paying tech industry) it may never happen, and if
somebody gets a virus from Hotmail they'll blame the victim.
Kristin
