I can understand you are in a rage because of this we are here to help ok
I find it strange you had problems with Apple experts I assume at an apple store or on the phone.
---- Yes... the telephone support line.
I guess where I am coming from is Apple will provide support for Apple issues what you have is a Microsoft issue.
---- Support tried to sell this to me and I wouldn't buy it from them, either. This is a typical case of two vendors pointing at each other and leaving the customer in the middle with nobody willing to take responsibility. In this case the problem seems to me to be with Apple. Windows Live works fine. The push email works fine with the iPhone. Why doesn't it work with the iPad? At least, this is a joint issue for the two companies. But since the only product affected is the iPad, it seems to me that the primary issue is with Apple, not Microsoft. why should Microsoft care particularly whether the iPad works with a Windows mail system?
Connectivity can be a problem and to help you I will have one of our members try to sort this out. Please keep in mind we provide this support free of charge going on about people you know means nothing to me as frankly Apple provides far better support than windows ever did and that's a proven fact.
----- Your standard of proof has yet to be verified to me. A claim like that is insupportable.
Please understand this is a private forum of some 11,000 members many and I mean many whom have had excellent support from Apple when they needed it. I am not up to date with windows live but I thought it was a replacement for hot mail.
----- As Microsoft has many and I mean many more customers than Apple, it would be easy for me to claim and support a statement that many and I mean many of those customers have had excellent support from Microsoft when they needed it. I didn't have the same experience with Apple. Windows Live Mail is a replacement for Hotmail, Outlook, and Windows Mail.
My answer based on limited information is to create a Gmail account forward all mail from windows mail to gmail which is one of the best for spamming etc control. Then have Apple mail get mail from gmail it's that simple.
----- Have you ever tried to export all your mail, calendars, tasks and contacts from one mail client to another? I already did this from Windows Live Mail to Outlook because the iPad only supports Outlook. Getting all those files back into another system has already consumed two of my evenings. I don't want to get involved in yet a third email client. Windows Live provides excellent spamming etc control and I really don't have a desire to accomodate Apple's shortcomings. I'd rather they fixed their own problems instead of me enabling them.
As I said earlier I will have some one with more email program knowledge than I have contact you most likely in the next 24 hours.
----- I appreciate your response. At least in this forum I found out one important thing: this is a known problem. Apple should own it more clearly.
Cheers Colin down under[/QUOTE]