[potatolicious]

I dislike the downvoting too, but there's a reason for it. People are raising valid critiques about Hotmail (that the Hotmail team specifically asked for!) and their only response was "well, why would anyone want all of that anyways?"

They're clueless, that's why they're getting downvoted. Re: their complete and utter cluelessness when it comes to IMAP support, someone basically summarized up the reasoning in a single sentence, that the Hotmail team hasn't realized in years of managing this product:

"ActiveSync? srsly? Does it work with my Android phone? With an iPhone? With anything else than Windows?"

[macmaxbh]

Yes, because they're actually talking about Exchange ActiveSync. http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archiv...

EAS is a protocol specifically for mobile phones, and Android, iPhone, Palm all support it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Exchange_ActiveSy...