Kainaw's Journal: Microsofting the Workplace

For the last two years, my workplace has been on the roadmap to dumping IMAP and installing Microsoft Exchange. At every meeting, I asked if IMAP access would be available after the change. My past experience has been that the MS Exchange administrators always disabled IMAP for "security reasons." For two years, the answer was always, "I don't see a reason to disable IMAP." Well, today is the switchover day. IMAP is turned off. MS Exchange is turned on. And... no IMAP access. I asked why there's no IMAP access. I was told to install Outlook and use Exchange. I explained that I don't have Windows on any of my computers. I was told to put Windows on my computer. My workplace is being Microsofted. I guess it is time to look for another job.