microsoft released a full package, os,browser,oe etc so that they all work together. imagine if they hadn't, you could have a windows os, someone elses browser, some other mail set up. and when it didn't work, we get the pass the buck syndrome, everyone blaming everyone else. at present microsoft supply support for all their products. so you could have a full working system and only one company to deal with instead of 4 or 5. if you wish to use a different browser or mail client that's fine, but if you have problems with it microsoft quite rightly don't want to know anything about it.

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.