It is very simple. Because it is Microsoft. It wants you to give all you data and emails to Microsoft. So tomorrow you will buy Windows and Windows Phone - as you would have no access to your files from other platforms. (Or access with troubles.) That way you are being voluntarily "tied". I seen myself being unable to login into Hotmail from GNU/Linux once, in another country. Since that I use Gmail on my domain. So I can come to Hotmail or Yandex from Gmail and still save all my addresses.
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Date: 2011-05-02 10:40 am (UTC)Because it is Microsoft.
It wants you to give all you data and emails to Microsoft.
So tomorrow you will buy Windows and Windows Phone - as you would have no access to your files from other platforms. (Or access with troubles.) That way you are being voluntarily "tied".
I seen myself being unable to login into Hotmail from GNU/Linux once, in another country.
Since that I use Gmail on my domain.
So I can come to Hotmail or Yandex from Gmail and still save all my addresses.
Complicated, yes?
I'm sorry!