I have been using Google Apps for some time time and I cannot fault it, the space they give you for your email and all the services that you get with it.
However I was just looking around on the net and using MSN and then I thought surely MSN offer the same kind of services and they do it is called Windows Live Community Builder So I thought I would give it ago. So I changed my MX records over from the Google Mail servers to the WLCB server and the change was pretty much instant. I set up a new account for me and away I went. it was that simple. I will post something a bit more informative up later once I have been playing around with it. But I do like the look and feel of Windows Live, Google Mail was very good but the interface I found wasn't that nice.
More to follow.....