:I don't see any reason why he can't. MSN is just another ISP like :Earthlink or Mindspring. Exim will get your email from mail.msn.com and :Konqueror accesses the web just fine. All you need is the MSN DNS IPs :during your setup of your Debian network.
Because it's M$ and they break things on purpose (though stupidity comes into play at times too), see the previous response... :Heck, if Debian works with AOL it can work with anything :) Does it now??? Is that a good thing??? well I suppose for kids dual booting their parents computer it's a $DIETY send.