On my neverending quest to support open source software, I’ve finally converted to Mozilla Thunderbird as my default email client. The only thing holding me back was Outlook Express’ ability to innately access Hotmail. Now that Gmail has pop3 access, I can quietly phase out Hotmail.
My next step would probably convert to a default boot of linux and use Windows on the side. However, with dial up, linux is no fun. Perhaps when I am in college, I will attempt such an act.