RobbieCrusoe wrote:
But why is it highly desirable?... Because it is affiliated with Microsoft?  What's wrong with @yahoo, @gmail, @hotmail and coutless others that allow a sensible email address.  Why do we need yet another email domain for fanbois to drool over?

Or am I just too old to understand?


It's the 4 letter domain name.  Those are hard to come by.

-SM