I believe that something is entirely amiss when a huge computer-software company such as Microsoft cannot produce any "new" application, mini-application, or "improvement" without major inconveniences. I tried to get to one of my email locations at MS Office Live recently and - and - well, let me show you the described issue(s) which I provided MS Support:
"When I try to login to my email, using this email address, as well as sfbenterprisesllc@msn.com, I am shunted into your 'Office Live Workspace' and there is no clear route to my email. How could you be so stupid as to put forth a page ('workspace') without a clear route to NORMAL login destinations, such as email? On those occasions when I do get to my email page, you saturate the right side with ads featuring half-naked men declaring their joy at being "ripped." Is Bill Gates into soft porn? I AM NOT! Please do not consider this to be an attack on Microsoft's homophilic stance. Therefore, if certain kinds of ads are UNWANTED, why not provide your customers on the receiving end a veto over what sort of ads are 'flashed' on their individual, private computer monitors. Or does Bill Gates plan to just 'grab us by the throats' and force-feed his homosexual fantasies onto the long-suffering users of MS products?"
Why does MS push their Office Live Workspace with such desperation? And why are MS applications relentlessly incompatible with other MS products? And why do they try to punish a MS user who doesn't want to switch or upgrade to their latest glitch-filled product? An example being the latest IE8 which screws up the website you built using IE7.
The latest insult is charging customers a fee to talk with their "techies" (probably situated in India) about why your MS application isn't working correctly. This appears to be no more than the old "flack-catchers" but with the new wrinkle that you have to pay them.
Microsoft has developed its Office Live Workspace to preempt the login to its Office Live email page in favor of the "cul-de-sac" known as its Workspace. Escape however you can! Microsoft won't help.
Yav Yo Tim is a man of kidney in a lily-livered world. As a Sage among shadows, many find his visibility threatening. Deal with it!
