[mso] Re: Downgrading to Outlook 2000?
- From: Paul Darnell <pdarnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 00:19:12 -0400
Tuesday, April 29, 2003, 6:52:03 AM, Linda wrote:
> What was the reason this person told you to downgrade? Personally, I think
> Outlook 2002 was a great improvement over 2000
>
Linda et al.,
I'll just forward my friend's comments below.
Paul
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> Microsoft removed Net Folders from Outlook when it created Outlook XP, and
> that alone is enough of a reason to recommend Outlook 2000. This feature
> first appeared in Outlook 98 and was continued unchanged in Outlook 2000.
>
> Why did MS do this? One reason only. Outlook XP is the first Microsoft
> software to support Passport. This system funnels all commercial
> transactions and file sharing of any kind through Microsoft's servers and
> the servers of Microsoft's "partners" -- a term I find offensive, because
> the wolf does not have partners; it has victims whose fate is delayed. Under
> Passport, your passwords and other vital, private person information are
> stored by Microsoft on its servers or the servers of its, um, partners.
>
> No one needs to have been born in a different era to understand the
> advantages that Microsoft gains when it does this. But even someone born
> yesterday should be able to see that a company found guilty of very serious
> criminal charges should not be trusted without reestablishing a track
> record. Normally that is done by being honest and totally above board. But
> Passport has been brought into the world (and forced on Windows XP users,
> not simply on Office XP users) as if it were just a good way to protect
> customers.
>
> If Microsoft wanted to protect its customers, it would make Windows safe
> from attack and from viruses; it would recall Windows 95, 98 and Me and
> offer owners a version of Windows that does not crash and therefore put
> critical data at risk, and it would prevent its own employees from getting
> near customer data. That's how it could reestablish trust also.
>
> So them's the basics, more than you bargained for, Paul. Trusting Microsoft
> to handle personal, private, sensitive data is what every Windows user who
> signs up for Passport does. You can see why I refuse to run Windows XP or
> Office XP. (And perhaps one reason I am such a huge fan of Mac OS X, the
> Unix operating system Apple adopted for all its computers.)
>
> And ascribing any kind of decent motive to Microsoft in this situation is
> simply naive. It removed a neutral, consumer-centered method of sharing data
> with one that forces us to store our information on Microsoft's servers. The
> sole reason: To be present at every transaction so that it could profit in
> whatever way, and to insert controls in Passport that could be used for
> digital rights management. That's what's coming in Office 2003, and the idea
> that savvy users would allow this makes me sad. When, under DRM, someone
> sends us a message -- someone we don't even know, maybe, or someone in
> Bratislava who's up to no good -- the proverbial brat from Bratislava --
> that person will be able to determine whether you read the message and what
> time you read it. And when you deleted it.
>
> That's the beginning. Is privacy something we should be concerned about? You
> bet your life.
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