To my mind, John's postings touch on important matters - in particular, the way the FAQ section is configured on the OO.o site. When searching there for information on compatible email clients, I was unable to find anything at all. The link to the page relating to email clients provided by John below is not found under FAQ, but under projects ; how are newcomers to the site - the ones who need help with such matters - expected to know that ? Moreover, from my point of view, the recommendations provided on the page seem slightly out of date.
My suggestion would be that the FAQ section requires an overview, based upon the most frequently asked questions that come to fora like the present one. Were this to be done and FAQ given somewhat more prominence on OO.o:shomepage - e g, by including this term in the present «new user & general info» button, the same questions might not reappear quite as frequently on this forum.... Henri 2007/2/11, John Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Dan Lewis wrote: > > No, it is not just you. The very purpose of Microsoft is to get > people to use only MS products. It has integrated Outlook's spell > checker with Word for example. So, people seem to assume (wrongly) > that Outlook is just another part of MS Office. > > Dan I should have been a little more clear. What I meant was has anybody else noticed an uptake in the amount of "Does OO have anything like Office" lately? I've seen a few e-mails talking about Publisher, as well, but lately it seems to be Outlook. And I'm not saying that OO should or should not have an e-mail client, but I think that if there isn't, maybe there needs to be more of an explanation of why OO doesn't have it other than what's in the FAQ (http://user-faq.openoffice.org/faq/ar01s09.html#OUTLOOK). Your explanation, for instance, or "at this time there are more than enough e-mail clients out there, free of cost and free of Microsoft, that creating or merging one into the OO project would be redundant, and we want to spend our time on other areas, such as improving OO-MSO compatibility."
