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Outlook, Evolution and Kontact Side-by-Side

Posted by Zonk on from the looking-them-in-the-eye dept.

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."

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  1. Lack of Innovation by ciroknight · · Score: 0, Troll

    This just shows how sad innovation is in the Open Source market. These are the kinds of systems we should be innovating most because we use them most; clunky interfaces and useless features suck when it comes to task management and email.

    I found it almost shocking to see how closely Kontact mirrored Outlook 2k1. While this might be alright for the come across user, it's not likely to actually /attract/ any users.

    I'll stick with Gmail and iCal for now.

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  2. I always use Outlook... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Recent security issues in open source products have convinced me that obscurity provided by closed source is far superior security-wise.

  3. why these ugly GUIs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This really shows the lack of innovation in the GUI development - why does everyone want to make everything GUI look like MS Win, when there is an opportunity not to? I've yet to see an efficient and nice looking GUI from any of these guys.

    Forget about bloated calender programs and graphical file-managers taskbar and Start-menu-in-lower-left-corner, hell all i want is a terminal to work from. In my opinion the whole point/click/drag/drop is an overrated and slow way of interacting with a computer.

    I'll stick to the productivity setup of xterm/rxvt, fluxbox, vi/vim, elm/mutt, lynx/elinks.