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The problem is Microsoft using its servers as the middle man, without fair warning. Not what you mentioned.
by fifteen1506 3y ago
The problem is Microsoft using its servers as the middle man, without fair warning. Not what you mentioned.
- wannacboatmovie 3y agoYou're right it's totally different when Google does the same thing with Gmail.
- blkhawk 3y agoFor GMail people set that up deliberately Outlook pretends to be a desktop app.
- wannacboatmovie 3y agoThe kids call these Progressive Web Apps and half the posters here were complicit in developing the technology.
- Etheryte 3y agoI think you're wildly overestimating how much deliberation or thought the average Gmail user has put into any of these topics outside of "free email, neat".
- MereInterest 3y agoThe difference between Gmail's IMAP setup and this new Outlook IMAP behavior is the same difference between borrowing a friend's car and stealing a friend's car. In both cases, you're driving a car that doesn't belong to you. The difference is whether you have permission to be driving that car. Both Gmail and Outlook are receiving passwords, then using those to perform IMAP requests from their servers. The difference is that Gmail had permission to do so, while Outlook did not.