> You are making a lot of sense Adam.
I thought so. I composed that email to illustrate some of the things that frustrated me about Outlook. It was then you guys who turned it into a flame-fest by assuming that I was out to basically flame the hell out of it. So what's the big deal? Firstly, I don't like MS-Exchange -- so sue me for having an opinion. As William said 58,000,000 people use it. But I don't. I do like Outlook as a mail client. All I did was get a little frustrated with some of its features. Reviews have even agreed with me -- Take the ZDNet review at http://www.zdnet.com/products/stories/overview/0,8826,475916,00.html, and I quote: "Although it lacks any new marquee features, the latest version of Outlook has many small enhancements that make a good product even better. Unfortunately, many of the little things that frustrate us are still there, too." Too true. I can't help but notice a little irony in this whole thread, where as soon as I flame a Microsoft product, everyone with a "MCP MCSE or MVP" badge attached to their collar pulls up their pants and gets on the defensive. My operating system of choice is FreeBSD. But I am also an MCSE and I know what I am not naive about the things I have spoken about. I am not some "Microsoft Hater", in fact I quite like Windows 2000, but there are certain things about it that irritate me, which is why I prefer BSD over it. You guys are correct when you say there are "things you can do" to get around some of these annoyances, and sure, you're right, you can, but they are still annoyances nonetheless. To me anyway! >From my point of view I was talking about Outlook as an email client and as I said at my side I connect to a POP server. Exchange is powerful in that it has plenty of groupware functionality, and I agree that it, combined with Outlook as a client makes a lot of sense. But I'm not going to run Exchange and will hopefully never have to deal with it, simply because I don't like it. That is my opinion. I notice that my emails were not specifically directed towards any one person, but towards a piece of software with which I was pointing out a list of major issues I have with it. Sure there was some sarcasm involved, but that's the type of guy I am. As soon as the replies came in, especially from particular people, you started giving *me* shit. This thread was about the Microsoft Outlook product, *NOT* about me. Regards, Adam Smith IT Officer SAGE Automation Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sageautomation.com ԿԬ ************** Email Confidentiality Clause ************** The information contained within this email and its attachments is intended for the named recipients only. It may contain privileged and confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not copy, distribute or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this email in error, please return it to the originator advising of the error and delete all copies of it from your system. ------ You are subscribed as [email protected] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
