Outlook access to Hotmail/Windows Live mail/MSN Mail

[Guest]

Windows Live Mail is a product that is now funded by advertising - a reach
play - so why is it that I have to have a subscription to access the email
through the Outlook client that I BOUGHT FROM MICROSOFT? I know you want to
give people a reason to buy office live but this is sad - the revenue stream
can't compensate surely for the lack of product uptake and therefore eyeballs
on the adds with corresponding click-throughs or the loss of "goodwill". I
ended up opting for gmail purely becuase I get a free POP account....The only
saving grace is Windows live desktop mail but that means I have to use two
email clients...This is just sad...Surely the idea should be to get WL
Desktop for those who DO NOT have Outlook....

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[Brian Tillman]

Windows Live Mail is a product that is now funded by advertising - a
reach play - so why is it that I have to have a subscription to
access the email through the Outlook client that I BOUGHT FROM
MICROSOFT? I know you want to give people a reason to buy office live
but this is sad - the revenue stream can't compensate surely for the
lack of product uptake and therefore eyeballs on the adds with
corresponding click-throughs or the loss of "goodwill". I ended up
opting for gmail purely becuase I get a free POP account....The only
saving grace is Windows live desktop mail but that means I have to
use two email clients...This is just sad...Surely the idea should be
to get WL Desktop for those who DO NOT have Outlook....

Please don't multipost.