On 13/12/2011 12:41, Smylers wrote: > David Cantrell writes: > >> On 12/12/2011 13:59, Simon Wilcox wrote: >> >>> They were instead mainly using instant messaging tools and social >>> networks like Facebook - and for most of them, when they joined Atos >>> it was first time they had ever worked with internal email tools >>> like [Microsoft] Outlook." >> I do not, however, believe for one moment that recent graduates are >> unfamiliar with email. Even if only stuff like Hotmail or Gmail. > I think that's the point. Mass-market webmail clients are sufficiently > inefficient to use that they could easily seem to some as not having any > advantages over instant messaging and the like. Exposure to Hotmail > doesn't really hint at the features of say, Mutt.
Outlook doesn't really hint at the features of Mutt either. Hotmail *does* however, hint at the features of Outlook. It hints at frustration and unreliability. -- David Cantrell | top google result for "topless karaoke murders" Computer Science is about lofty design goals and careful algorithmic optimisation. Sysadminning is about cleaning up the resulting mess.
