The UC Berkeley Haas School of Business recently moved all the email accounts to an Exchange server.
The good thing is that now, our lifetime email accounts and school accounts are routed to the same mail box.
The bad news is that many folks are having trouble consolidating their Microsoft Outlook to access both company email and Berkeley/Haas email.
Not so for your truly.
I spent all of 4 minutes adding an email account to Mail on my PowerBook. One option when you create an email account is the kind of email server. All I needed to do was to select Exchange as the email server and enter the URL of the email web server. I did not have to bother with whether to use IMAP or POP.
All cool and easy. I wish everything else in the computing world worked the same way.
For example, Thunderbird has zero support for smart connection to an Exchange server. I had to go down to the nitty gritty of IMAP vs POP, the choice of encryption, ports. None of which worked.
Thunderbird may be free, non-Microsoft and open source, but it does not have the smarts to make it the next generation email client.