Accessing Live,MSN and Hotmail in Outlook w/o subscription

[Simon]

Live/MSN/Hotmail is a product that is now funded by advertising - a reach
play - so why is 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 ads 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]

Simon <si...@discussion.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Live/MSN/Hotmail is a product that is now funded by advertising - a
> reach play - so why is I have to have a subscription to access the
> email through the Outlook client that I BOUGHT FROM MICROSOFT?

Well, while MSN may be wholly-owb subsidiary of Microsoft, they're not the
same company and you purchasing something from Microsoft does not give you
any right to use any product offered by MSN.

(Pedant alert: you didn't buy Outlook from Microsoft, either. You bought
the rights to USE Outlook.)

> I know you want to give people a reason to buy office live but this is
> sad -

To what "you" do you refer here. Microsoft, as an entity, does not visit
these newsgroups. Once in a while, a Microsoft employee may visit and
answer questions, but it's rare.

> the revenue stream can't compensate surely for the lack of product
> uptake and therefore eyeballs on the ads 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....

Outlook can be used without MSN and MSN can be used without Outlook. Use
whatever mail client you like with MSN.
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Brian Tillman