> Then, they should remove it from the software and make a few good
> suggestions as to alternatives.
Ah, the realities of commercial software.
News support is a checkbox. The checkbox doesn't differentiate between
"minimal news support", "good news support", and "world class news support".
In fact, having a reviewer note that you have a "world class Usenet client"
can cost you a sales agreement.
In my view, it's a no win proposition for Microsoft.
If they pull the news client out of the software, they take flack for
removing features. And it'll all be attributed to some evil plot wherein
after forcing their competition out of business, they slowly remove features
so that they can charge more for adding them back later.
But even Microsoft doesn't have enough spare money and, more importantly,
spare people to integrate a "world class Usenet client" into the fold. Thus
the status quo and the continual flack (but less flack than the other
option) for having a, by comparison to their mail client, sub-par news
client.
And, realistically speaking, Entourage is a business application. And I
think that you'll find that the Entourage newsreader is more than sufficient
for 75+% of the (at most) 10% (and probably closer to 5%) of the user base
that actually uses the news client. Meaning that at worse only 2.5% of the
users "have to" resort to also using a standalone news client.
All, as always, IMO.
mikel
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