Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): ... > simple. then in the FAQ add a thing that says Outlook XP is a pile of crud: > you need to do this to get around the problem. (or is it already there and > i'm an idiot and can't read the manual properly?) :)
You just have to read it right and learn the word: Microsoft Outlook. from my Dictionary of the Future: Outlook: (noun) 1) an application playing on the phrase "look out!" released in the late 90's around the time of a movie called Outbreak!, it was a viral application set out to move users from SMTP to Exchange. (see also Exchange). Microsoft: (adj). A word meaning "slow, unsecure, does not follow standards". Derived from "micro" and "sloth", this adjective is placed before nouns to describe that they can be used in fun on test networks to aid in testing edge events of your hardware and software. For example, if you have a machine that is too fast for you to adequately measure its performance, you put a microsoft Operating System on it to slow it down so you can watch it. In this scenario, you can count operations with a stop watch where with an actual operating system, you'd need costly tools that could measure millisecond timing. Microsoft is also used to describe applications designed to test how your other tools handle standards. By subtly toying with timings and behaviours, you can test how generous your application is in what it accepts. In the late 90s and early 00s (uhohs), corporate officers, in part threatened by the "dot com" boom and computer engineers rising into management and, mainly in jest, issued decrees that these "microsoft" systems be deployed throughout companies. By the 2010s, the prank was well understood and both management and systems engineers laughed about it and had moved on. History indicates that a company even called itself "microsoft" and issued poor quality, unsecure software.
