"Liviu" <lab2k1@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:eSfJF7YpIHA.3960@xxxxxx
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> "N. Miller" <anonymous@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:ivhdr5nrbu7s$.dlg@xxxxxx Quote:
>> On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:26:00 -0700, Maffysdad wrote:
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>>> First you stop new Hotmail accounts from using Outlook Express to
>>> access their email.
>>
>> MSFT's explanation is that WebDAV wouldn't scale. As they increased
>> the storage capacity of the accounts, to keep up with Google (5GB) and
>> Yahoo! ("Unlimited"), there were problems. >
> That seems to be the official line, indeed. And it completely ignores
> users who have no interest in or use for the extra capacity, for whom
> WebDAV worked - especially compared to no OE access at all - and could still work but for the politics of change. The fact remains that most users demanded (and the competition delivered)
larger mailboxes. You are effectively proposing that Microsoft maintain two sets
of mail servers, some handling WebDAV, and the rest for DeltaSync.
I imagine that the economics for such a dual structure would be prohibitive.
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Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (WLMail)