>What kind of operating system doesnt come with an e-mail program?

The right kind? The kind that requires people learn there's a difference b/t an OS and an app, and that there are free apps for everything, both from MS and others, and that such programs are not hard to find or use?

> And if the programmers at Microsoft have any strength left at all, they are high-fiving.

  I can picture these wonderful high-5s ;)