Anonymous

Indiana

Education

Exchange is the least secure email anyone could use. In fact, it's responsible for most email viruses that have spread very quickly on Microsoft Windows. (Where else?) The fact that Microsoft makes it so easy to expose the addressbook, sets up a senario where it's quite easy for an infected device to spread a a virus or worm to all contacts in the address book. Exchange is not email, it's a proprietary mess. Real email is based on open standards, and is more secure than Outlook/Exhange (or as it's commonly called, 'Outbreak'). POP3 supports encryption and is an open published standard. No one has used it to infect huge numbers of other computers becasue it's a secure product, unlike any of Microsoft products which are made to be insecure--Microsoft is paid by the 'security' companies such as Symantec to keep this situation going, thereby creating a market for security products that shouldn't even be necessary (and are totally irrelevant on Mac OS X or any Unix/LInux.)

Furthermore, Outlook/Exhange is a monopoly tool that Microsoft uses to keep workers and businesses tied to their products. For this reason, it's only available in Windows. You can access it with a Mac or an iPhone, but only if the webmail interface is open. The webmail interface is so lame though, that you can't even search your email with it. It's 2007 and you can't even search for a message in your email. That is beyond pathetic.

Please Apple, DON'T add exchange support. Make the IT staffs open their webmail interfaces or switch to an actual standards based email system (not standard in the Microsoft sense of a lot of people using it but standard in the real sense that it's published and anyone can use it without licensing it from Microsoft.)