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

[Kevin Kuphal]

Joseph A. Caputo wrote:

>On Thursday 01 July 2004 09:38, Cotter, Paul M. wrote:
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>>People use them because that's their company standard and they're
>>using the company computers.
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>>That's my reason anyway.
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>>Paul
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>And I suppose top-posting is company standard as well? :-)
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>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.
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>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.
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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.

Kevin