The twisted reasoning is probably so that the users can access the emails anywhere with their live account (and so that MS can scrape those mails for all sorts of creepy shit)
Oh, do you need to sign into a Live account just to use Outlook now? Or is this exclusively for Live account users?
At least in those cases, it would at least make logical sense … But if they’re doing stuff server side just to do it, seems like there’s no benefit for anybody but them. Unless they wanna pull the Google line of “we’re keeping your IP address safe from the bad guys” or some crap
It also sends your IMAP credentials to their servers and receives the mail there, it’s not done locally like the older versions.
Do they have a reason for that, or are they doing it just to do it
The twisted reasoning is probably so that the users can access the emails anywhere with their live account (and so that MS can scrape those mails for all sorts of creepy shit)
Oh, do you need to sign into a Live account just to use Outlook now? Or is this exclusively for Live account users?
At least in those cases, it would at least make logical sense … But if they’re doing stuff server side just to do it, seems like there’s no benefit for anybody but them. Unless they wanna pull the Google line of “we’re keeping your IP address safe from the bad guys” or some crap
Just to do it, IMAP already covers using multiple devices on an email account.
„Better user experience“ they said.
This is the worst part to me. All this just to “cloud sync” or something silly.