Actually, you can buy it separately. As far as I know, you can buy each piece of the Microsoft Office Suite as an individual product. Only if you buy the "Suite" do you get it all. :)
-- Puryear Information Technology, LLC Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 http://www.puryear-it.com Author: "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" "Spam Fighting and Email Security in the 21st Century" Download your free copies: http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/ebooks/ Joe Fruchey wrote: > No, I know that Outlook is a full PIM and whatnot. Thankfully, I don't > use it anymore (got fed up with 20MB mailbox limit at work, so Gmail > checks it via POP now). And I understand that the functionality it > offers is important in an office environment. It just seems like the > odd man out, and that perhaps it should be offered separately. All the > other PIMs I can think of are separate apps (though both users of ACT! > are probably still running Windows 95), and most office suites do not > include a PIM or email client. > > That is all. > > On 5/16/07, Karthik Poobalasubramanian <karthik at poobal.net> wrote: >> Don't forget the fact that Outlook stores all emails(and other junk) in a >> single small file. Apparently, this is the most safe and secure way to store >> your email. >> >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: general-bounces at brlug.net [mailto:general-bounces at brlug.net] On >> Behalf >> Of -ray >> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 3:57 PM >> To: general at brlug.net >> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Is OpenOffice just "good enough"? >> >> >> Outlook Express just manages email. With full Outlook, you get contacts >> and calendaring (and other junk), which is more fitting in an office >> suite.. Add the collaboration that you mention, and boom that's what >> users want. >> >> ray >> >> On Wed, 16 May 2007, Joe Fruchey wrote: >> >>> And does anyone else feel like Outlook is out of place in an office >>> suite? Every other app is about creating documents or content, and >>> then this one is for reading and managing email messages. Seems random >>> to me. >>> >>>> MSO will also always kill OOo in the collaboration arena. That's their >>>> forte, and they do it well. Expensive and proprietary, but well. >>>> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> General at brlug.net >> http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> General at brlug.net >> http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
