On 11/6/05, Daniel Kasak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Robbie Darrell Graham wrote: > > >Yes, I also use Thunderbird. But I would like to use something that was > >integrated into open office like Outlook is in Microsoft Office. > > > > > Why?
Why? - WHY? Because it makes *SENSE* to, that's why. I understand that OpenOffice.org is holy, and perfect, and is not to be questioned. If something is missing, it *SHOULD* be missing. If something hogs memory, it *SHOULD* hog memory. But the simple fact is, people use Outlook everyday. It's got value. It makes sense that the same words that I use in Word are the same words I use in Outlook - therefore, the spell-checker should draw from the same list of words. It makes sense that since email is mostly words, and text documents are mostly words, the interface should be similiar, if not identical. It also makes sense that if I write something to someone, I should be able to email it, from my email address, *AS AN EMAIL* - not an attachment, even if I write it in my word processor, and not my email client, and I should be able to do this without opening my email client, and without copying and pasting anything. I makes sense that my contact information (Names, emails, addresses, phone numbers, birthdays, relationships, etc.) should be accessible from my email client and my word processor. Because regardless of if I am writing an email to someone, or a letter, or making a chart for them, their info doesn't change, so I should have that info uniform throughout the programs I use to interact with them. For these, and I am sure dozens of other reasons, it makes sense to have an email client as a part of your office suite, whether that suite is OpenOffice,org or MS Office, or Gnumeric, or whatever. That's "Why". -Chad Smith
