__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Saturday 22 July 2006 19:59 \__
> begin oe_protect.scr
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Flaw finders lay siege to Microsoft Office
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| For most of the summer, Microsoft's Office product teams have had little
>>| time for development. Responding to a steady influx of flaws in the
>>| company's Office productivity suite has occupied many of
>>| Microsoft's programmers since late 2005.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/22/bug_hunters_crawl_over_ms_office/
>>
>> This extensive 3-page article makes a compelling case for the use of
>> OpenOffice. While both suites have flaws (MS Office compromises the whole
>> O/S), it's evident that MS Office is forever fixing (expect more of the
>> same), rather than evolving (cruft, useless features, UI, and icon sets
>> aside).
>
> The house of cards is falling down. When you don't need office, and you
> don't need IE, then what's left? About the only thing MS have currently
> keeping their customers locked-in is Outlook/Exchange. It's clear that
> there are good alternatives out there, but I suspect that they won't get
> traction until we've seen a few more moves to ODF; as these moves are
> all on their way now, this might not be long.
They are some Open Source so-called 'Exchange servers',
which are cheaper and fully compatible, as one would
hope/expect. I have listed at least 4 separate appliances
(Exchange alternatives) in the past few months. There is
plenty of business to be won (snatched), so many
implementations are worked on, in line with Microsoft's
so-called specifications/standards (they are notorious when
it comes to inter-operation in servers, for which they got
immensely-excruciating fines).
As regards Outlook, Evolution (2.8?) has recently got a
serious visual makeover some days ago. Evolution also
attained a fully-working Windows port recently (weeks ago),
which is important for those taking the migration route that
involves applications, then underlying platform.
Thunderbird's new calendar extension (is Sunbird still out
there?) is heading/has headed in the same direction. There
are other such alternative, but this requires a
Freshmeat.net lookup. Anyone who still considers
Outlook/Exchnage to be a deadlock or a migration
impossibility was probably subjected to disinfromation (word
of mouth or out-of-date literature).
Best wishes,
Roy
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