Subject: Re: DarkSide Express
From: civileme (civileme@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Tue Apr 23 2002 - 12:19:21 AKDT
On Tuesday 23 April 2002 08:11 am, James Bagley Jr. wrote:
> It's really difficult to use a non-microsoft system in a microsoft-centric
> environment. I'm doing it, but it's not easy...
>
> I regularly get excell and word documents in email. I must say that i've
> been *really* impressed with kword, abiword, gnumeric, and kspread.
> Between those 4 applications I can open 90%-95% of all microsoft docs that
> I recieve. There is the problem with MS Outlook calendaring, scheduling,
> and public folders. I can't access these things with my favorite email
> client (pine). Evolution is suppose to be able to get there if you want
> to purchase a $70 connector product. Even if I get that i'd probably
> still use pine for email.
>
> As near as I can tell, once a company gets used to doing things the ms way
> it is really difficult for them to do something different. I think it was
> built into the design of their software such that if you got used to it,
> using anything else becomes too different and cumbersome. They put an
> addictive chemical in their software! I know it!
>
> -my $0.02
>
> On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, William Bouterse wrote:
> > I am just curious !?
> > I often see on Linux mail lists including aklug;
> > a great many Outlook Express users
> > (sometimes the majority of posters) and wonder if it
> > is because they email from a M$-centric business environment
> > or in fact prefer to use it ?
> >
> > Sorry for the non-issue topic but I have wondered
> > for a couple of years now !!!
I use Microsoft software to test compatibility, but I keep it on one machine
and protect it with a gateway and a firewall both running Mandrake, and I
never use it to connect to the internet, and the rest of the time when it
isn't doing interoperability testing on its 15 G Winpartition, it s running
8.2 with four RAID0 partitions each using a different journaling filesystem.
Civileme
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