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Outlook, Evolution and Kontact Side-by-Side
gaijincory writes "Opensourceversus.com has put together a nice side-by-side comparison of Microsoft Outlook, Evolution and KDE's Kontact groupware programs. The screenshots delve in to the nitty gritty details and should help in making an informed choice, if nothing else. This is a follow up to their comparison of the Outlook Express and Thunderbird e-mail clients."
This sort of eyecandy is very nice to look at, but utterly useless.
Actually, the only thing that's useless is your comment. You know full well that third party software cannot reliably connect with Exchange servers, and you also know full well that the reason is that Microsoft keeps them proprietary and non-interoperable.
Fortunately, increasingly, that doesn't matter because Microsoft's outdated, insecure, and proprietary protocols are being replaced by open standards.
So, why don't you crawl back into the intellectual hole you came from and commune with your Exchange servers and buggy Microsoft Email clients, while the rest of us enjoy our choice in high-quality free software.
Can I handle my 2 Gb of PST files with Evolution and Kontact? If not,
2G is about where Outlook irreparably damages your mailbox, so I would say that you are probably approaching the point where Outlook can't handle your PST files anymore either. Oh, and don't forget that PST is proprietary, too, so you will not be able to migrate your mail easily to anything else.
Oh FSCK OFF. Seriously.
Somebody actually asks a relevant,on-topic question requesting a comparison of actual product features, and all you could do was blather about proprietary software?
News for you: Proprietary software gets reverse engineered all the time. Ever wondered how Google Desktop search so nicely indexes all the Outlook emails ? Not to mention every mail server nowadays support POP/IMAP. Including Exchange and Lotus notes.
And Outlook 2003 is the best damn email client available. Ever wondered why your "high-quality free software" email clients look so much like Outlook ?
Have you actually worked in a Corporate environment? Do you even understand why people need Calendaring and scheduling?
If not, SHUT THE FSCK UP.
Does anybody actually use these 3 programs?
There's a great program I use called Gmail, brought to you by those fine guys at Google.
Gmail is never going to expose your computer to viruses unless you run attachments. Gmail has a smaller memory footprint than any of the other programs, and can be run on any machine that runs Lynx. Gmail stops spam. Gmail not only takes up no disk space on your computer, but gives you two gigs free per account! And you can have as many gmail accounts as you want!
Gmail also supports RSS feeds, which makes it useful for many other reasons.
I set up Thunderbird, and then I realized there was no reason to ever use it. And Outlook...
Intolerance for ambiguity is the mark of the authoritarian personality.
And the Gimp is equally FULLY SUPPORTED in Windowze, I can see you are just flamebaiting... ask the people who made the Gimp how much "more" they support The Gimp for windows and for Linux... WTF are you barfing about?... I do not know why am I answering to your comment...
Gimp is "more" supported in windows???!! Did you get that from Microsoft's "Get the facts"? Here's some facts for you windows fanboy, Gimp is built on GTK which is a Linux API. Think Win32 the Linux way. The windows port needs the GTK windows port as well. A GTK app will never feel windows native to you because they're not. The devs were kind enough to port GTK to windows so you get to play with our toys. Thank them and STFU.
VStrider.