Comment by bogantech
2 years ago
Definitely scummy behaviour but it's funny how someone always has to bring up EEE and try their hardest to contort whatever the subject is to fit within that definition.
Back in my day we just wrote Microsoft with a dollar sign for an S
Do you really think this is a particularly try-hard contortion?
A mail client supporting IMAP from the beginning, and then waiting almost 30 years to move on to step 2 of their evil plan? yeah I'd say so
Microsoft has supported IMAP for decades. And, even today, they're nowhere near the top of the heap in email control.
So what exactly is the goal of their master plan? They stop using IMAP for their Hotmail and Outlook.com accounts? Big whoop. The mass of people on Gmail and icloud.com/me.com services will just download one of a dozen other apps. And then just slowly stop using the outlook required accounts; unless mandated by their companies/corporate offices, wherein they just run two clients.
EEE was a policy Microsoft had when it gained monopolistic position in a field. It's misguided and inaccurate to try to apply it here.