On Saturday 04 November 2006 19:15, John Andersen wrote:
On Saturday 04 November 2006 17:46, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 2006-11-04 15:50, Kai Ponte wrote:
<snip> They simply need to restart the FUD campain to scare others away from Open Source. Again I was at a friend's house this morning fixing their infected XP SP2 system and discussing how I never get viruses and my software "Just works." The response back was, "can I open Outlook Express emails in linux?"
Sigh...
But that is a very valid question, is it not? In the past, even users of MS software have had a chance to ask it, eg "can I open MSWord<n> documents in MSWord
? Valid? Not so sure. Typical? You bet. I've seen it myself.
Yeah, it is typical.
Typically the hardest users to pry away from windows are those that use it only for email and web surfing. (Well there are gamers too, but that's a different issue).
I know professional people who LIVE in Outlook. They know nothing else! Its their home page in life. The run everything from there.
That's me! Seriously, I believe that pretty much 2/3 of my day is spent in Outlook at work. You can see in the following screenshot, however, that even I have my weakness... http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/outlook_save.jpg This is an older screenshot, and I don't even remember which version of SUSE was being displayed. In any case, I have outlook XP loaded on my laptop and one on a SUSE desktop at home for connecting to the office through VPN. I would use Evolution, but we (along with many other companies) are still on Exchange 5.5 and can't connect using that product.
I know home users who really liked linux but couldn't part with outlook express. I showed them the Kmail outlook importer and that finally did the trick. Kmail running inside of Kontact will usually bring them around, usually after the second or third viral infection.
I took the first step today for that friend. I moved her and her husband over to Thunderbird and Firefox... ...baby steps... -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com