[mythtv-users] OT: Why are people using Outlook etc. (was: Can't get remote control to work right)

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Thursday 01 July 2004 10:54, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> >On Thursday 01 July 2004 09:38, Cotter, Paul M. wrote:
> >>People use them because that's their company standard and they're
> >>using the company computers.
> >>
> >>That's my reason anyway.
> >>
> >>Paul
> >
> >And I suppose top-posting is company standard as well? :-)
> >
> >I have yet to encounter a corporate environment where I wasn't able
> > to install, configure & use my own mail client and browser if I
> > wanted to. Heck, unless you have absolutely *no* write access, you
> > can always install some Mozilla variant, and it will work with the
> > same proxy & mail configuration that Outlook uses.  AFAIK most of
> > the Mozilla software installs into a single directory (i.e., no
> > system DLLs are changed), so you don't need admin privileges on
> > NT/2000/XP and uninstalling is as simple as deleting the directory
> > if you're in a hurry.
> >
> >That said, I'm sure there are cases where it's just not doable, but
> >those cases, in my experience, are far fewer than most people think.
>
> Works fine for email but doesn't cut it for the Calendaring, Tasks,
> Public Folders and other "groupware" features that Outlook provides
> both in a home environment as well as a company that uses Exchange. 
> I could be running Thunderbird right now at work but I would lose a
> good chunk of the functionality utilized here.

I just keep a copy of Outlook running for access to the corporate 
calendar & address book.  I don't use it for mail, though.

-JAC