Is MSN hotmail forcing mac users to use Outlook a problem?

A) Hotmail is forcing its email users to use Outlook.com
B) It needs Microsoft Silverlight
C) Outlook.com is optimized for IE, Chrome 17 & up, Firefox 10 & up, & Safari 5.1
I spent years as a mac user where I couldn't send email out from hotmail because of Microsoft. Is this going to happen again?
I prefer Safari v 6.0.3.

Radiation Mac wrote:
Email "HotMail" Techncial Support and "share" with them you feelings of "joy" at their recent requirement! That's about all you can do with MS.
There is no need for that, everything works as it used to, MS changed the name of the service, not anything else.
Safari 6.0.3, and Outlook.com

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