>> What Exchange does is store your mailbox in a central database rather 
>> than locally on your PC. That's pretty trivial.
> 
> It does a lot more than that. It has the calendering, reserving of 
> conference rooms, meeting scheduling, to-do lists, all the permissions 
> of getting heirarchical groups of people looking at calendars and to-do 
> lists, revocable email, one message shared between lots of poeple, 
> offline synchronization of all that stuff, etc etc.

In other words, it stores more than email messages in a central 
database. Still conceptually the same deal, just with a few minor 
details on top.

Now the offline synchronisation... *That* is at least nontrivial to do 
right.

> You often seem to argue from a position of ignorance. Rather than argue 
> "X doesn't do anything more useful than Y", you should probably ask 
> "What does X do that's more useful than Y" when you don't know the answer.

Well, when somebody says that two identical things are not, in fact, 
identical, I ask what they think is different...

> How can you be IT support for a windows-based company and not understand 
> the terms "windows logins" and "remote administration"?

I don't see what "windows logins" have to do with a generic web server, 
that's all.

>>>> (Aside from giving root access to anybody who types their URLs with 
>>>> backslashes instead of forward slashes...)
>>>
>>> Cite?
>>
>> I *think* this is the correct one:
>>
>>
https://services.netscreen.com/restricted/sigupdates/nsm-updates/HTML/HTTP:IIS:ASP-DOT-NET-BACKSLASH.html

> 
> And where does it say anything about root access there?

It says that you can "bypass all security controls". How is that 
different from root access?

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