One More reason to hate Microsoft!
Posted By wassim in WassimLike many of you outlook express users, I got an email today informing me that outlook express will no longer be able to access hotmail accounts beyond June 30 because the geniuses at Microsoft have invented what they think is a better protocol and outlook doesn’t support it so they had to come up with a new “magnificent” piece of shit called Windows Live Mail. Why not upgrade outlook express? Well they say it will take a lot of work to add support to the good old outlook express…As if making a new program from scratch is easier! Do they take us for fools or something? Well maybe so and for a reason, we still are using there OS!
Like a dumb ass, I believed this crap and went straight to the download page, installed and fired the application to be saluted by a crash, hmmm, typical Microsoft first run behavior.
Restarted the application and watched it at work, it seems it’s using the same engine as outlook with the sole difference that it crashes every 3 to 5 minutes or so, well, Now I know why they had to put outlook aside, because it works and they simply can’t withstand the idea of having an application or even an operating system that works without killing it for the sake of shitty new applications no one really wants or prefers over the existing ones…
Having that said, I am seriously considering switching to Linux, the knoppix compilation is really cool and I am waiting for the Linux version of Adobe flash to switch permanently to Linux, if anyone knows a way I can start using flash on a Linux, plz drop me a line.
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:31 pm
Well jee, if you hate Microsoft so much, go switch to linux! Why seriously consider it? Just do it!
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:43 pm
Have you tried using Thunderbird to access your Hotmail?
April 23rd, 2008 at 2:02 am
Sorry to hear about your woes. I have an old Hotmail account that I hold on to as well. I use Thunderbird with the webmail extension to get my Hotmail stuff. Although I do recommend Linux, you don’t have to use Linux to use Thunderbird with the webmail extension.
As far as Flash goes, Linux has been able to play Flash for a very long time. In fact, I think (not sure) that Ubuntu comes with the Flash player pre-installed, which is even more convenient than in Windows.
April 23rd, 2008 at 2:10 am
Oh… and if you need flash Authoring tools, FlashMX can be run under Wine, and if you don’t want to fiddle with it, you can use FlashMX under Crossover Office.
There is also a project to make an open source Flash authoring platform. It’s called AMES.
April 23rd, 2008 at 3:28 am
Why I have not switched to Linux yet is because most of the software I own runs under windows and there is no Linux version for these unfortunately (mostly flash related tools+3dmax and after effects).
The flash authoring tool I use (flash CS3) cannot be run under Linux, the current Version of Wine is still incapable of correctly doing the required emulation (besides, it is having hard time staying up and running even under native windows!, good job on this Adobe)
I’ve never heard of Crossover Office, thanks for mentioning it, it sure is worth having a look at.