On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:00:57 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

> 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.

If they shut down their email servers, then users are free to use
any mail servers they wish, web based, pop3, IMAP - free or paid.
Not just Windows Live Hotmail. They can't "force" anyone to use a
Windows Live Mail client. That's totally up to the individual.

But that does shed some light on what he might have been trying to
say. Maybe they suggested it as one possible server and client.
And as he admits, he did switch to a local client other than
Windows Live Mail.

-sw