As others on that page have noted, it is a little suspicious that /u/falconer didn't post anything for 2 years before posting the question about IMAP.
Does indeed look at like a marketing ploy. Nothing wrong with that.
Does indeed look at like a marketing ploy. Nothing wrong with that.
The anti-M$ hate & paranoia that HN seems to have inherited from /. seems so beyond antiquated in this day and age.
On topic: This is great news. Congratulations to MS.
It's so sad to see people who, on one hand will wax poetic on the subject of rationality and open mindedness,will turn around and join a tech bandwagon with no real reason and certainly no real knowledge.
Win8 is better than 7, even if you hate Metro. Objectively, statistically, the OS is more performant than 7.
Of course, openminded geeks never let data and stats get in the way of the anti-ms bandwagon. I'm sure they'll come around for the next windows, "because Windows is good every other release, donchaknow"!
Yeah, some people seem to be so blinded by hate towards Microsoft (yes, they behaved notoriously bad), that they can only judge whatever comes out of Microsoft based on that.
I like what they are doing with Windows Phone, Skydrive, Outlook.com, and web-based Office (and I am a UNIX user). But any such comment is usually with by vile reactions.
Yes, you may not like Microsoft and object to using their product because of their moral behavior (ironically, they seem to be one of the least walled-garden-ish company these days). But can we at least judge their products by their technical merit?
I don't. It's entirely possible that you confound the company-directed hate with the product-directed hate, simply because you have neither.
For me, I'm very happy with my Lumia 928, 125 GB SkyDrive and the 400+ users I set up on Office 365 love the email system and web based Office.
With the use of something like Start8 (or 8.1), the experience is largely identical and the extra performance and improved ui (task manager, etc) become highlights.
> great news! Congratulations to MS.
You’re not helping your case ;)
Anyways, I've been a member of many tech fora over the years. So far, I find HN to have the best balance between defenders of Microsoft, Apple, Android, *nix, and BSD. If you know of a better forum, I’d love to hear about it.
Are we all to feel embarrassed? Maybe next you'll start flicking the lights?
How is someone pointing out what seems to be a really obvious setup indicative of "anti-M$ hate and paranoia"? It sounds like you're the only one who is paranoid.
Such setups are common, and in this case it does look like an employee on the group remembered an old account they had (the "it's the only thing you're missing" then a gratiutious link to marketing material). No harm in that, really, it's just a bit funny to see. Is it hateful to point out what is obvious?
The person writes this:
>Skepticism be damned, I'm actually an actual person who asked an actual question. I saw on Twitter that Outlook.com would be doing an AMA, and nobody asked the IMAP question yet, so I did. I've been a lurker on Reddit for several years.
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1m926j/we_are_the_outl...
Now, it's possible it's an employee, but I wouldn't rate it as "most certainly" like you did, it was obvious that someone was going to ask this question.
Feature request: like they do on Reddit with iAMAs, give posters the opportunity to verify with staff that they are who they say they are.
Of course, as usual and as expected, I found out the answer 2 minutes after posting my question.
edit: it's 9 years-old account.
edit: Since no one had answered I simply edited the post with the "solution" :) (seems like this got me 3 beans).
with the absence of any other information at all, this user must certainly be a shill. the logic checks out.
Marketing via astroturfing (fake public engagement) is at best unethical, and often illegal.
Really? Our government does it.
Most developed countries have some laws regulating astroturfing, though implementation is often iffy, and at worst penalties are rarely that severe. Samsung was fined a few hundred thousand for it in Taiwan recently, and is under investigation in other countries, for example.