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Yes! My university uses Live, or whatever it's called this year and it sucks in a majestic fashion. Different versions open in different browsers, the mobile site just doesn't work at all, there's an enormous redirection song and dance when logging in. Loads of basic usability flaws. Want to archive an email and create a new folder at the same time? Not possible. Oh and it's down far too often.

The only reason I don't pump it through my Gmail account is the level of crap that gets sent on mailing lists.

I feel your pain! My university's tranfer to Live@Edu has been anything but easy and I just forward my email to GMail from the university's email. I long for the day when the backend of email is completely transparent.

as a UC Davis student, I can say it's a much better change than what we had before (and my on-campus work switched to Gmail from OWA as well). definitely will hate to see it go ..