Dear Sir/Madam,
I am not certain as to whether or not this idea has been uttered, or if something like this actually exists in your software already. I have, however, never been able to find anything likei t in OpenOffice or indpendant email clients, so I thought I’d give this a go. In my opinion, the main reason why the popularity of MS-Office persists, appart from people not knowing any better, is the absence of an email client in the OpenOffice suite to replace MS-Office Outlook. This massively extensive email client is, in fact, the only reason why I still use MS-Office. I’m quite impressed with the whole of the OpenOffice suite, but this remains a big problem for me. There are, of course, alternatives to MS-Outlook, such as Mozilla Thunderbird, but, to my knowledge, those all lack the ability to utilize a dedicated text writer program, such as MS-Word or OpenOffice Writer, for the purpose of writing emails. I don’t have to elaborate on the advatages of having full Word- or writer functionality while writing an email, as supposed to the standard built-in resources of the mail clients themselves. I realize that develloping your own email client would require vast amounts of time, let alone to create one that can rival MS’ Outlook, but why bother when such programs already exist. Therefor I would like to sugest a colaboration between open office and Mozilla, for instance, where Thunderbird, in this example, would eventually be able to utilize OpenOffice Writer for setting up email messages. If this could be realised, I am positive that OpenOffice and Mozilla would, together, be able to meet MS-Office on equal footing and perhaps eventually win the fight. I hope this idea is of some use and I would like to know what you think of it. With kind regards, M. Maas Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.10.11/909 - Release Date: 20-7-2007 16:39
