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Microsoft Stops Development Of Outlook Express
Jman314 writes "According to a ZDNet story, Microsoft will cease development of their Outlook Express email client. "The technology doesn't go away, but no new work is being done. It is consumer email in an early iteration, and our investment in the consumer space is now focused around Hotmail and MSN. That's where we're putting the emphasis in terms of new investment and new development work." says Dan Leach, lead product manager for Microsoft's information worker product management group. Microsoft's alternatives include, not surprisingly, the full version of Outlook."
Outlook is really a superior email client - period. The new version 2k3 is really nice - Unix mail clients will always be playing catch up because Microsoft has the developers and money.
And you can certainly go beyond the wizards in Outlook - but you need real balls and can't be some random "tech", you gotta write real code.
Outlook is really a superior email client - period....And you can certainly go beyond the wizards in Outlook - but you need real balls and can't be some random "tech", you gotta write real code.
So what you're saying is, in order to use something beyond basic configuration garbage in Outlook, you've got to be a programmer? There's no level of user between beginner and programmer? What the heck kind of crap is that? I don't want to have to learn a programming language just to configure something more than my POP and SMTP servers. (In reality, I already know several, including, unfortunately, VB, which is probably what is used here, but that's beside the point) Most users who are starting to get more advanced aren't going to want to become programmers in order to set more advanced options. That's the most retarded thing I've ever heard.
Real superior email client you've got there.....
"City hall" in German is "Rathaus" Kinda explains a few things......
Imagine that, a sensible idea to get the best of both worlds that doesn't involve putting a blanket ban on HTML mail.
The "sensible" bit must be why it took Microsoft five years to come up with it.
!#@%*)anks for hanging up the phone, dear.