On 2/2/14 1:00 PM +0900, Thee Chicago Wolf (MVP) wrote:
On 2/2/14 7:17 AM +0900, Thee Chicago Wolf (MVP) wrote:
[ much snippage ]
separate apps for the functions. Email clients are becoming a dying
breed but for many old-school people like me who want to port or
backup all our email dating from well over a decade ago, it's nice. I
Perhaps in consumer-land, yes, but e-mail clients are where the meat and
potatoes of communication happen in the corporate world. There hasn't
ever been a client office I've administered that only did browser-based
mail.
Hold the boat. I hope you are not referring to the *proprietary*
environ called Exchange, right? Outlook is *not* standalone in any
corporate environ I've ever admined. So throw that out the window if
that's what you're selling me here. Exchange does calendaring,
meeting, and a few other bells and whistles in terms of the
everyone-knows-everyone's-availability perspective.
When it comes to the corporate desktop, the universe revolves around
Exchange/Outlook and Domino/Notes. If one hasn't administered Exchange
in the backend with Outlook on the front end, it suggests that one isn't
necessarily working in mainstream environments. Just sayin'.
We just dumped Exchange in favor of a hybrid GMail+Calendaring option.
The edges are a bit rough but it's working well for me on
Thunderbird+Lightning with the Google Calendar add-in. And I nor those
in the ivory tower were forced into making it "work" with Outlook.
With what's coming down the pipe in HTML 5.1 or 5.2, the old kludgy
webmail client of the 2000's will look and act like the
Outlook/Thunderbird's of today.
If you like webmail, who am I to argue? I've yet to see a web interface
that would make me want to even consider giving up a native e-mail client.
With 24 years of IT under my belt, I would advise you strongly to stop
wasting good budget money or valueless certs from the boys in Redmond
as University of Phoenix degrees will hold more value and that ain't
saying much. Just sayin'.
I understand. I've been in IT since '85 in one form or another, long
before MS concocted their plethora of certifications. Not sure why you'd
be advising me of that, though. I doubt I'll be seeing any UoP diplomas
here in Tokyo (and wouldn't look for one even if I could).
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