Why Email is a Bad Collaboration Tool

An anonymous reader writes "Isaac Garcia follows up his popular "The Good in Email" article with "The Bad in Email or (Why Steve Ballmer is the CTO of Microsoft)": "In spite of email's universal success (as a collaboration tool), and in spite of its many good traits, email contains deep, inherent flaws that force users and markets to seek alternatives to collaborating via email."

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Better email

[pubjames]

Dear OSS community,

please come up with a better email! As a business user I need something that has guaranteed, secure delivery. I don't care how it is done, but that's what I need. If you don't do it, eventually somebody else will - probably Microsoft - and then you'll complain about their implementation and be playing catchup.

Thanks!

P.S. Yes, I know it's difficult.

Let me guess

[Tweekster]

MS has a product that will completely solve all these problems....