Mike Scott wrote: > John Boyle wrote: > ... >>> >> To NoOp, You sure said that straight and to the point! What I cannot >> understand is why anyone would use Outlook, when between OOo and the >> mozilla family of software, you have the same functionality without >> being a hacker's delight!? :-) >> > I have no good idea of what Outlook (as opposed to OE) does, never > having used it. But from what I've read, it goes beyond being a mail > client. > > However, a friend was bemoaning Outlook the other day. A colleague of > his had apparently sent a CD full of "Outlook" documents. Which were > unreadable, because apparently somewhere around Outlook 2002/2003 MS > changed the file format incompatibly. No prizes for guessing what my > friend promptly did; they're not called M$ for nothing :-( > > The outlook seems bleak for some. > > A few years ago, I was at IBM supporting Windows users at a large company. The users were supposed to save their Outlook PST files to CD occasionally and once a year, they had to save to CD and start the new year fresh, to keep the size of their PST file down. This was necessary because if it got too large, it would corrupt and lose all the mail it contained. And with that company, we weren't even allowed to ask the server team to recover lost mail, except for senior management, due to the risk of corrupting the email system.
I make a point of trying to get people to switch away from Microsoft products, for this and other reasons. Yesterday, I got someone who does IT support for a large organization (that recently had a significant funding cut) interested in OpenOffice. I quickly whipped out my pen drive, so that she could copy OpenOffice and the portableapps version. Also, after getting people to use OOo, Firefox, Thunderbird etc., it's a lot easier to get them to switch to Linux or Mac, since their apps are already there. -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
