circlejerk

Plenty for everyone

I mentioned earlier in a prior post that IMAP was the default setting when letting MS Office 2010 Beta configure email accounts.  Doing a bit of research after the last ‘hiccup’, I had a brainstorm.

Turns out my Gmail account settings online were set to ‘enable IMAP’ as well as the ‘enable POP’, so it’s understandable why this happened.  I still am vehemently against IMAP, since Gmail itself autoarchives copies of received email…the bandwidth of syncing folders is a waste when a person ‘uses’ them locally on the same computer.

Changing the online setting cured this, I did a new ‘automatic configuaration’ of the same account…it set for POP3. 

The bigger problem now is that by default most bloggers are running their sites on servers with IMAP enabled.  Once MSOffice 2010 goes *GOLD*, I see a number of people facing issues when they go to purchase new laptops with it preinstalled.

They will see how long it takes to sync, they’ll be freaking out when their bandwidth gets sucked, and they will be clamoring, whining, and ranting.  Laptop manufacturers will immediately develop Raging Fans, blameshift and push off owners to Microsoft, and people will be doing the same thing they did a decade ago…

…when AOL was preloaded on to computers it couldn’t identify the modem correctly during software installation.

Thank God I went into the medical profession, getting someone to buy modern office furniture rather than pay for it myself is wonderful!