I couldn't -help responding to this. I have a GE Oven, a Kenmore Fridge a german made mixer..., and they all help me to make the greatest food. I would not ever think that all my gadgets to be made by the same company to work well together.
Personally I love MS word, and I can't stand Outlook, so I used to use Eudora, now am very happy with Evolution. They work very well together. Reuven ---- Robin Laing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Meyer wrote: > > robert wrote: > >> Possible, but I doubt it. There are already some good, free, open source > >> mail > >> programs out there, such as Thunderbird or Evolution. I use Kmail myself. > >> Why > >> spend the limited funds and time to add a program that already duplicates > >> what is out there? > > > > > > > > Playing devil's advocate here for a moment, if you really want to go > > head to head with MS Office, sooner or later you're going to have to > > face the behemoth known as Outlook. Without it, it will be Microsoft > > Office vs. OpenOffice + some random e-mail client. Get the drift in > > terms of unified products. > > > > Even though I am late responding, I couldn't let this one sit. > > We have been forced to Exchange server with no IMAP or POP allowed. > This forced me to Evolution, the Linux clone of Outlook. And it sucks. > > This is one reason that I am late in responding. I don't want an email > client tied to my office suite. Just because Microsoft does it, doesn't > make it right. They tied IE to the OS so you cannot remove IE and > applications can call IE if they wish, even if you use Firefox and > configured it as your default browser. > > We have this issue with people using Word for creating Emails and then > all we get are attachments and crap. This is a problem for many people > that find this annoying. > > This is a problem with Microsoft trying to tie all applications into one > big mess of a program. Now you can charge more money. > > And for what it is worth, most of the people around here that seem to > like Outlook are those that have not tried anything else. > > -- > Robin Laing > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
