Re: [Outllook.com] Mail-service integration in diverse .* management systems

For your reference, records indicate that
Michael Uplawski <michael.uplawski@uplawski.eu> wrote:

Now I tend to inform people who are unaware that their public mail is
directed via outlook and most probably passes servers on the other side
of the ocean.

This is not unique to email.  There are many people who use Internet
services because they are a recognized name brand, regardless of how
many thousands of miles away they are or whose flag they fly.

My question is however simple: Is there an *obvious advantage* to use
outlook.com instead of your own mail-server, while the systems in question
allow the integration of just any mail-service under the sky?

Service providers give management an easy scapegoat when things go wrong. 
The bigger the name, the bigger the “too big to fail” conceit on both
sides of the equation.  For smaller organizations, they just couldn’t
employ enough technical staff to oversee all the stacks that they
want/need to run.

In short, the “advantage” is being able to use all these toys without
actually having to understand *anything* about how they actually work. 
They *want* to be “unaware”; you make no friends when you try to inform
them of their reality.

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