Comments on: No More Outlook Express

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 25 Aug 2003 03:10:06 +0000

Markus, interesting link. Where do you plan to go with those ideas?

Reagan, I am dropping it.

Leonard, I’ll give Thunderbird a try again. I also got an email from someone who used a mail component of Opera, which sounded interesting. I’m willing to pay for a good product.

By: leonard

leonard — Fri, 15 Aug 2003 00:12:08 +0000

I think it’s clear that Microsoft is still hell-bent on the idea of providing all their software as web-services, and I think that they’ve judged that their marketshare is so overwhelming that they can afford to use the stick to corral users to either directly to MSN/Hotmail (remember, everyone is required to create a Passport when they use either) or at the very least, as added incentive for migrating to Longhorn (which of course, will have lots of .NET and HailStorm hooks.

BTW, I’ve been using Mozilla Mail (and now Thunderbird) for a while. It works pretty well and I don’t have to worry about the latest security hole. I exclusively use IMAP, haven’t noticed too much funkiness.

By: Reagen Ward

Reagen Ward — Thu, 14 Aug 2003 23:18:28 +0000

Why not abandon it? Now all those who are addicted to the MS feel have to buy Outlook licenses. I think this decision + the decision to drop standalone IE are two of their smartest desktop decisions yet.

I’d like to think that these choices would result in an upset user community that would stop using their products, but I know better. Worse is better.

By: markus

markus — Thu, 14 Aug 2003 22:50:02 +0000

MS abondons Outlook Express? well, maybe one day, the world will “abondon” eMails (see link) -

By: Christine

Christine — Thu, 14 Aug 2003 21:11:38 +0000

Here I’ve finally gotten hooked on IMAP (thanks to you) and they want to abandon it? *sigh* Big meanies.

(Speaking of IMAP, I still need help getting my spam to fall back in my spam folder. Since He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named broke it. Can you hook me up?)