Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> __/ [ [H]omer ] on Friday 11 May 2007 04:18 \__
>
>> Verily I say unto thee, that Philip spake thusly:
>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>>> Microsoft to kick Vista's e-mail app to the curb
>>>>
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>> | Windows Live Mail will replace Outlook Express on Windows XP and
>>>> | Windows Mail on Vista in "the coming weeks," said Microsoft.
>>>> | [...]
>>>> | Swapping in the Windows Live Mail client for Vista's Windows Mail
>>>> | might surprise Vista users, since the operating system has been out
>>>> | less than four months.
>>
>>> does this mean we can look forward to losing Outlook Express as a COLA
>>> news reader :)
>>
>> I wouldn't say "look forward" was the appropriate sentiment. "Shudder
>> with horror" is more like it, at the prospect of Microsoft finding new
>> improved ways of mangling Usenet articles.
>
> Iam Semel used that WIndows Live Mail at the time and he struggled to cope
> with COLA as an NG.
>
I can't really see Microsoft taking all that much interest in direct
NNTP access to anything - it's a very old protocol, and there are web
interfaces all over for it. They have far too much on their plates at
the moment to worry about this. Our trolls will be a little stuck, I'm
sure, but will probably go with the "it's all too old for a modern
company like Microsoft to support"; much the same argument used for the
failure of Apple to support VCD playback in their OSX media player -
there was one of their most foolish astroturfers on here *defending*
Apple when I pointed out how disappointed my No1 son had been with that
issue, having spent so much money on a machine. Of course, he soon had
mplayer on it, and later, Linux, so the problem went away...
Which is the proper solution for Microsoft's poor NNTP support - just
use Linux.
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