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April 24, 2006, 03:51 PM ET
Mail by Microsoft
In a February article about San Jose City College's decision to adopt Google's e-mail service, The Chronicle reported that 21 colleges -- including some overseas -- had struck e-mail deals with Microsoft. A couple of months later, Microsoft's college e-mail service appears to be rolling along: A total of 72 institutions have now signed on, and almost 200 others are considering doing the same, says BetaNews.
The service, called Windows Live@edu, lets students keep their own campus e-mail addresses. But instead of using college-designed Webmail software to check their messages, students use Windows Live Mail, a client that Microsoft patterned after Hotmail's popular Web interface.
Students may enjoy Live Mail, says Matt Mondok, of Ars Technica, because it's less kludgy than many other Webmail clients. And campus users won't have to deal with ads, at least for the time being; Microsoft is turning them off for students. But the company has reserved the right to restore the ads to the accounts of users who keep their college e-mail addresses after graduating.
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