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Outlook or Office 365 or whatever they're calling it this week

Princess AlicePrincess Alice
edited 2014-04-27 17:18:21 in General
Does, like, every college or university use Microsoft's free email service now?

I have no fewer than three Microsoft email accounts: my personal "Central Avenue" one, the one from my community college, and now my BuckeyeMail

Which isn't a problem except I can't log into more than one at once
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  • Obā-sanObā-san

    Central Avenue said:

    Does, like, every college or university use Microsoft's free email service now?

    seems so
  • Previous CalicaPrevious Calica
    edited 2014-04-27 17:29:13
    (flower path)
    I think some of them use Google's.

    My math department runs their own servers though.  B)
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    My sister's high school uses Google mail.

    I'm totally jealous; I'll take that over Outlook any day.

    Not to mention that Google will let you LOG INTO MORE THAN ONE ACCOUNT AT ONCE jkfjaslk;fjads
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Just use multiple browsers.
  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/7Iil2JW.png
    glennmagusharvey said:

    Just use multiple browsers.

    >college computers

    >having browsers that aren't IE8
  • Previous CalicaPrevious Calica
    (flower path)
    at both colleges i've been to the computers had multiple browsers.  heck, i've even used mac and linux boxes!
  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/7Iil2JW.png
    I go to a community college.
  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/7Iil2JW.png
    Some of the like, lab computers have more recent browsers, but I'm talking chiefly about the ones in the library, which are complete garbage.
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    i go to a community college as well

    we got (slightly outdated) firefox
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    My community college's "open" computer labs had both IE and Firefox

    The "instructional" labs (the ones you're only supposed to use during class sessions) only have IE, though. Go figure.
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    the computer labs we had in public school had Macs

    but suddenly community colleges only have Windows
  • TreTre
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    I use both Windows and OS X at school (each in different classes)

    The Macs are much better though, solely because the Chrome that's loaded on them lets one properly sign in and use it as intended by Google and not the Wake County Public School System

    (it still has the site filters, but still, Windows Chrome walls the garden even further by barring students from using extensions or signing into the app)
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    i'm amused by how quickly we derailed from the email providers to school web browsers
  • TreTre
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    re: Microsoft e-mail accounts: even though I don't do the college thing I have 2

    one came with my Gatremag and the other is tre@outlook.com

    I signed up for the second mostly for the privilege of having a proper first name as an e-mail
  • Previous CalicaPrevious Calica
    (flower path)
    Tre said:

    the Wake County Public School System

    ah, so glad to be free from their clutches.

    I remember once getting around their obnoxious computer lockdown stuff by means of the dialog boxes that you use to open and save files
  • KlinotaxisKlinotaxis
    kill living beings
    i tried installing live365 on my phone once to view school email. big mistake
  • Previous CalicaPrevious Calica
    (flower path)
    i was about to say "isn't there any way you could use something like thunderbird" but then I remember the effort it took to get that working on my UNC account and lol
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Oddly enough, Thunderbird managed to get my school account pretty easily

    I can't remember if I had to manually tell it the server was "outlook.office365.com" though
  • Previous CalicaPrevious Calica
    (flower path)
    I had to use something like pod86753.outlook.com
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Thankfully they switched from "pod271828" or whatever to the more sensible domain name a while back

    I think that happened after you left UNC, though
  • Justice4243Justice4243
    READ MY CROSS SHIPPING-FANFICTION, DAMMIT!

    i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
    My college gave us outlook accounts on a locally hosted server, I believe. But who know what they're doing now.
  • Yarrun XIXYarrun XIX
    Whores! we want "poems that kill."
    Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
    guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
    and take their weapons leaving them dead
    My college uses Gmail for everything. Pretty easy and convenient, especially for projects 
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    *envy*
  • FüschlatzFüschlatz
    edited 2014-04-28 07:18:13

    The NSW Department of Education and Training also uses Gmail for all student and teacher email accounts, plus their Student Portal even gives us full access to a few educational services that otherwise require paid subscriptions, like Lynda.

    Almost sounds heavenly compared to what Wake County apparently has to deal with...
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    edited 2014-05-13 08:06:47
    Well, I never used Outlook...

    image

    ...but Outlook Express keeps on crashing on my computer.  Sometimes I'll receive an e-mail, but every time I click it, it'll just cough up an error.  Maybe I should be happy it's not bluescreening, like a lot of other things are wont to do in Win98...
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