OpenOffice 2.0 vs. Microsoft Office

Jane Walker writes "Slashdot's own Robin 'Roblimo' Miller compares OpenOffice 2.0 and Microsoft Office in a recent interview with TechTarget and, when asked to identify one of the main obstacles facing widespread adoption, calls for the OSS community to deliver personable, usable training for new OpenOffice and open source software users."

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Re:Are You Stuck On Stupid???

[Bert64]

Well if exchange is the only server to support MAPI, then perhaps they cant use it because they dont run exchange.

As for outlook being specifically an exchange client, the specific exchange client was the original "inbox" app that shipped with exchange, outlook was intended as a general purpose mail program with exchange support and came along much later.

And as for ISP's not supporting IMAP, this is due to the way IMAP is intended to store the mail on server rather than downloading it, this isn't in the interest of most large isp's since having thousands of megabytes of customer's mail on their server will increase costs dramatically.