"Christopher Muto" > wrote in message > i don't think
microsoft killed ie becuase it was a bad product but
> rather to try to get people to sign up to live/hotmail to help bolster
> membership in the face of gmail taking market share. since they did not
> offer an alternative on vista/windows7 machines many people just went
> ahead with getting a live account as it is seemingly the easier thing to
> do. smarter people install thunderbird
>
> enjoy.


In this case, it's 'people with smarter friends' who went with T-Bird ;-)
And, I think you're right about MS's motivation for the Windows Live deal.

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