UCF is Microsoft's Pet

UCF, because of it's close affiliations to Microsoft, forces its students to use a hotmail based email address for all school communication. The only way to forward emails with Hotmail is to do with the ill-prepared Microsoft Outlook; which breaks after you start adding and mixing multi-email addresses on it.

Unfortunately that means I can't sync my email with my phone (G1) unless I go the browser way...which is inadequate and time consuming. This also means that I can't upload files to my school workspace while using Linux.

Here is the message I get:

To use Microsoft Office Live Workspace beta, your computer must meet one of the following requirements:

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8 running on Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, or Windows Vista. You can download Internet Explorer from the Internet Explorer page.
  
• Mozilla Firefox running on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, or Mac OS X 10.2.x and later. You can download Firefox from the Firefox download page.

• Safari running on Mac OS X 10.2.x and later.

To use Microsoft Office Live Workspace beta, your computer must meet one of the following requirements:

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8 running on Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, or Windows Vista. You can download Internet Explorer from the Internet Explorer page.
  
• Mozilla Firefox running on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, or Mac OS X 10.2.x and later. You can download Firefox from the Firefox download page.

• Safari running on Mac OS X 10.2.x and later.
  

Haters.

They should have stuck with the pegasus email that was linux based and forwardable, which hotmail isn't.

Microsoft. Inconvenience at your fingertips.