On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Andreas van dem Helge <joakimsen@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Randall R Schulz <rschulz@sonic.net> wrote:
When I show them that wine will run those two packages (without belaboring the details) and absolve them of their Outlook sins, bless them with Kmail (spam filtered of course) they become converts rather quickly.
The only problem is Kmail is just not the same class application as Outlook. ...
Doubtless.
Outlook is in a class of its own when it comes to crap. It is the king of crap. It is the depths of the dregs of the Internet. To use Outlook is to spit in the face of every human being who uses the Internet or who aspires to use the Internet. Outlook is the greatest evil any corporate entity has ever perpetrated on the denizens of the Internet.
I assume you say that because of silly things like mailinglist headers, top quoting, HTML/"rich text" mails, etc.
The mail it sends is the _least_ of its faults. The problem with Outlook is that for many office workers its the ONLY application they know, and they use it for absolutely everything. Storing files, Documents, Mail, Spreadsheets, projects, everything. They can't even launch Word, or Excell unless they start from outlook. They are lost without it. Only to be rudely awakened when they run up against its limitations (which are not at all hard to exceed), and it barfs its index and they are hozed. Since their entire world was in there, often stored on their local hard drive, with no backup it takes a major effort to salvage anything. Its another one of Microsoft's lock-in products and it appears that at least a few posters here have drunk the coolaid. -- ----------JSA--------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org