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Office 2003 Beta 2 Screen Shots
frooyo writes "ActiveWin is displaying screenshots of Office 2003 Beta 2 including pictures of Outlook, Excel, Word etc. As seen by the screenshot - the task based interface is much more prominent. Also - Outlook's three-vertical-pane interface is now the default." Nice to get a head start on what we'll be cloning next year ;)
Actually the pathetic attempts of the linux community at trying to come up with a good alternative for outlook are the living proof of how much better outlook was all along. Versions of outlook before the 2000 version and outlook express had severe security issues that could be addressed easily by installing virusscanners (irresponsible not to do on a windows PC), using the patches (also irresponsible not to do) and configuring the software properly.
I've never been affected by an email virus. I know several people who were affected by a virus. One of them was a computer scientist who actually believed that the sender of a particular email was in love with him, had no virus scanner and double clicked the exe file. If my sister does that, I understand because she is clueless about computers. I would however silenty swear at the incompetence of her sysadmin (not me). If a computer scientist does that I silently think "you stupid idiot, didn't your mummy tell you not to accept candy from stangers?".
Jilles