"Sqwertz" > wrote in message
...
> On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 20:04:38 -0500, Stu wrote:
>
>> On 31 Oct 2010 00:15:26 GMT, Cheryl > wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri 29 Oct 2010 10:10:21p, Stu wrote in rec.food.cooking
m>:
>>>
>>>> I used Fedora for many years till our provider forced us onto
>>>> windows live, now it's outlook 2007, I won't use windows live.
>>>
>>>Provider enforced? Provider as in provider of what?
>>
>> Our ISP told us that we were migrating to windows live, this just
>> after they shut down their news server, then shut down their mail
>> servers.
>
> That still makes no sense whatsoever. ISP's do not use Windows
> Live Anything to serve their customers. And if they don't even
> have a mail server, there is absolutely NO possibility that they
> could force you to use any specific operating system or mail
> client.
>
> You have no clue WTF you're talking about.
>
> -sw

My guess is they are shutting down the regular mail servers as we know it
and forcing customers to Windows Live, a web based system integrated with
Hotmail. I strongly dislike Hotmail, Gmail and the like.