It was a joke on my part, I couldn't resist the jab. In all honesty I use Outlook everywhere (work, home, clients) and have no issues with it. Same for IE. Same for XP / Vista. They're popular to shoot fun at, but for me, what I do day in and day out, it's no problem. I figure the more frequent patching, etc is probably equivalent to the time to make "other than MS" options work in a largely MS environment. We have many Mac users in my office, and while they gloat about not having vulnerabilites to speak of, they bitch that stuff from PC's doesn't always work on their Mac's and vice versa.
I tried to migrate a (45 user) client to 100% FireFox (back at version 1.1). Another cleint (20 users) I tried to go to 100% Foxit Reader. Guess what, there was enough incompatibility that ultimately it wasn't worth the effort in either case. There are times with "go with what you know" actually IS a time and effort saver. Much of my time is making 3rd party apps work with Microsoft's stuff - weather I should be blaming Microsoft or the 3rd patry vendor depends entirely upon which side of the fence you're on :-). Dave ________________________________ From: Michael B. Smith [mich...@owa.smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 4:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Gmail Hey - I said fully-featured. (No intent to start a war here. :-) ) ________________________________ From: Tom Miller [tmil...@hnncsb.org] Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 7:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Gmail GroupWise. Never goes down (on Windows/Linux/Netware). Been doing GW admin for many years, many versions. (Exchange admin as well but I can't say Exchange didn't go down, but I hear 2010 is real good.) >>> "Michael B. Smith" <mich...@owa.smithcons.com> 7/7/2009 7:35 PM >>> Oh? And what fully-featured Email/PIM do you find to be more stable than Outlook? ________________________________ From: David Lum [david....@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 3:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Gmail So has Outlook…. From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 10:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Gmail Gmail has been "beta" for years...... On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Murray Freeman <mfree...@alanet.org<mailto:mfree...@alanet.org>> wrote: How do I tell if I'm still in beta? I don't use my account very often and I don't remember any "beta" notification. Murray ________________________________ From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com<mailto:scaes...@caesare.com>] Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 12:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Gmail They are now collector’s items. Put them on ebay. -sc From: Devin Meade [mailto:devin.me...@gmail.com<mailto:devin.me...@gmail.com>] Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 1:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Gmail Refresh took mine out of beta. Hey I only have 96 gmail invites left. What happened to the bazillion I had? On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Steven M. Caesare <scaes...@caesare.com<mailto:scaes...@caesare.com>> wrote: I guess that shows what they think of you. -sc From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com<mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com>] Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 1:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Gmail Mine still shows as Beta. Jon On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Steven M. Caesare <scaes...@caesare.com<mailto:scaes...@caesare.com>> wrote: Well, well, well… finally out of beta. -sc -- Devin -- Sherry Abercrombie "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
