From: mike 

On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 08:46:12 -0500, Mike N.  wrote:

>On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 11:17:58 -0500, "Geo."
 wrote:
>
>>why they didn't continue along the path of talking to experienced
>>users and doing the improvements that got them to where they were.
>
>   I haven't even seen Windows Mail, but I can tell you with 100% certainty
>that they don't support a standard protocol like APOP because this is
>somehow seen as a competing protocol.
>
>   Sort of like the spanking new FrontPage replacement, Expressions Web
>product barely supporting FTP as an upload protocol, much less FTP over
>TLS.   So, how long has FTP been out there; why not support it?

Because Microsoft sees no opportunity to control it.

 /m

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