I read some Sun blurb on this and they'd have me believe it's MS compatible. I'd side with you on this though and I appreciate your reservations. If I do any webpage stuff, I'd like it to be Asp'ish and that's the reason for my choice here - I hope I'm making the right decision!
To be truthful, there's not much I want to put on the net at this moment in time (apart from a house renovation photo gallery for relatives to look at), I'm more interested in an ISP-independant email address since I'll be moving to another ISP no doubt once this house is saleable and I'm getting fed up changing addresses. I know I could use an anonymous email service but they are regarded suspiciously when doing online shopping etc.