Goodbye Outlook

[jasonlane]

bye bye

No IE, no Outlook, what ever next................. No Windblow$, no M$, yeah!

[mushrooomprince]

I never liked IE or outlook anyway.

Im just worried about what im going to use for that kind of stuff when i get my linux box.

[skyman8081]

quote:Originally posted by mushrooomprince:
I never liked IE or outlook anyway.

Im just worried about what im going to use for that kind of stuff when i get my linux box.

mozilla or use Konqueror, KMail, Galeon, Ximian Evolution.

the standard pack of browsers and e-mail clients in any distro.

and good riddance to lookout express. thing just passed viri along  like no tomorrow.

good bye so long good riddance

By the way I saw on Ars that Office 2003 is $686

does M$ NOT wan't people to use their software?

honestly!

[jasonlane]

Well there are plenty of excellent mail clients, Pine for example. IE, I wouldn't advise using IE even on windows.

It is possibly the worst browser on the market.

Mozilla is in a different league (even on XPee)

[jasonlane]

quote:Originally posted by [root@localhost /]$:


mozilla

By the way I saw on Ars that Office 2003 is $686

does M$ NOT wan't people to use their software?

honestly!

Yeah but Joe Bloggs thinks, hey $686, wow it MUST be good at that price.
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P.S. [root@localhost /]$

That sig it funny. How true  

[ August 14, 2003: Message edited by: Zardoz ]

[mobrien_12]

Just to clarify.. it's bye bye outlook express.

Outlook stays.

Without outlook, exchange goes away.  Without exchange, there is no need to use MS for mail servers.

[xyle_one]

i am for one, glad that they are getting rid of outlook express. my only concern right now is, what are they going to bundle instead? MSN? and some sort of hotmail thing. a similar attack like the one on netscape when they bundled IE. this doesnt sound good.

[Stilly]

this is probably some kind of master plan from cumguzlersoft. i mean no more IE and outlook express sounds a little too good to be true....

[Faust]

In case anyone doesn't want to clicky clicky the little link:

 

quote:
Microsoft will not do any more development work on the world's most popular Operating System.

It might be the world's most widely distributed Operating System, but Microsoft has confirmed that it has no intention of further developing Windows.

"[Windows] just sits where it is," said Dan Leach, lead product manager for Microsoft's information worker product management group. "The technology doesn't work, and no improvement has been done since 1994. It was a "consumer" Operating System" in an early iteration, and our investment in the consumer space is now focused around advertising and lawyers. That's where we're putting the emphasis in terms of new investment and new development work."

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39115720,00.htm

Sigh.  Knew it was too good to be true.

[ August 15, 2003: Message edited by: Faust ]

[bigsleep]

"I sat down with the Windows team today, and they tell me my comments were inaccurate," Leach said Friday.
Hmm, strange that a product manager for Microsoft makes comments about something he knows nothing about    

I believe from what I've heard that they won't be making any improvements to the free Internet Explorer (there's practically no improvement since IE5.5, except for security patches and bullshit features). And I believe they will be permanently embedding HTML and eMail engines into the OS.
The only reason they made IE (and OE) free in the first place is to directly compete with Netscape (which wasn't free at the time), and of course, to screw up every version of Win95 by fucking up Windows Explorer (and adding the Active Desktop crap).

Who knows what marketing scheme they'll think up next?

[Stryker]

The say they won't work on windows anymore? that's fine. but they are still developing longhorn i'm sure. they'll have another operating system released but it won't have the name windows. the name windows is old, perhaps they think if they throw out a new name people will think it's new and cool... especially if it's still from microsoft, a big name. I can just imagine...

Joe: "i hear microsoft is making a new operating system named, 'longhorn'"
Jack: "Really? that sounds cool, when can we buy it?"

As opposed to...

Joe: "windows 2004 is coming out soon."
Jack: "it's too expensive, i like xp just fine."

[wargames_guru]

quote:. Microsoft executives are hoping those users will now switch to the full-blown Outlook client (and pay for an Office licence in the process).

Oh Great, now people can have the privledge of paying to have an email client automagically email subjective code to everyone in their address book.....we've seen this time and again over the past what....4 years or so.....

[Windows_SuX_@$$]

Yea outlook is sloow and buggy, IE is just crap I switched to Mozilla Firebird downloaded a few skins and plug-in and I am off thies was the best browser I had used it has Tabs and everything even popup blocking, no spyware and it free  

[Faust]

<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">as in freedom...</a>    

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(sob) fucking tags.  just type it in...

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[Fett101]

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It's not that hard, and you've been here long enough to know it...

edit: God Dammed UBB doesn't understand the purpose of the Code tags. Hah!

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