[windows2000] Re: OT: I've Had it with Outlook

  • From: Chris Berry <chris_berry-list-windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 10:46:24 -0800

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Costanzo, Ray wrote:

| Why is Outlook so widely used?  Because it's a damn good
| product.  Good====>Popular  That's how things work sometimes!  (Not all
| the time though, look at popular music...)

Because of the _features_ which I freely admit are very impressive, that
doesn't stop it from being a piece of junk from a security perspective.

| Microsoft gained its
| dominance by creating superior products.  Who here uses Excel?  Okay,
| and who uses Lotus 1,2,3?  That's what I thought.  But wait, wasn't
| 1,2,3 the #1 spreadsheet app for a while?  Why isn't it now?

Because MS sold their product for cut rate prices until they gained
dominant market share, not to mention tweaking the OS in their favor and
against Lotus.  There used to be saying at MS that DOS wasn't done until
Lotus didn't run.

- --
Chris Berry
chris_berry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Systems Administrator
JM Associates & Coast Business Service

"He who laughs last probably made a back-up." --Murphy's Seventh law of
computing
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