Microsoft Chooses Tricks over Treats
A new Microsoft development has occurred for me this week – I can no longer access my free Hotmail account through Entourage 2004. I realize this is not a new thing for most. According to an Entourage help site:
“If you have a free Hotmail account, Entourage may or may not work for you. People who have had free accounts for a long time were grandfathered access with Entourage. Newer subscribers do not have access with Entourage. A Hotmail Plus account would guarantee you access with Entourage 2004.”
I guess they decided to un-grandfather me in this week. I was hoping the free Hotmail access would continue to work as long as I didn’t upgrade to Entourage 2008, since I knew if I decide to spend the money to upgrade my software, I’d definitely not have access.
What really perturbs me about this event is that both Hotmail and Entourage are Microsoft products. So not only do I have to purchase their software, but if I want to use their email with this software, I have to pay for that, too. Yet, I can set up a Gmail or other Pop/IMAP accounts in Entourage just fine. Does that make any sense?
I realize I’m probably one of the last to experience this particular shortcoming from Microsoft, so its like they did me a favor, right?. Guess its time to switch to Gmail…
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Comments (3)
Come to Gmail, Angela, and escape the evils of Hotmail…
Reminds me of what Microsoft tried to do with their music store. They eventually recanted, surprisingly. Based on that example, if you raise enough ire, you might get them to re-grandfather you in.
Or you could just go to gmail.
Gmail is wonderful, I switched from Hotmail when I wasn’t receiving messages or they were delayed a day at a time. Gmail comes with online documents, free calendar, it’s everywhere you want to be.
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