On 10/07/2019 16:54, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 10/07/2019 15:10, Jethro_uk wrote:
On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 13:03:15 +0100, T i m wrote:

The thing is, it's going to take 'something special' to sway enough
people away from Windows (or Apple / OSX to a lesser degree) and you
aren't going to do that with something that at best can be a 'poor
alternative' [1] to Windows (/OSX). ;-(

I still maintain the killer Linux app would be a drop-in for Outlook.
Mysterious the one application no one in linux land has ever really
bothered with.


There's a lot of business apps beyond Office that only ever get
developed for Windows- things more specialised.

There are a hell of a lot of corporate desktops that could be replaced
with Linux when that never happens ... (they've had 20 years).

apart from email, what does outlook do?


Shared calendaring is what it does quite well, so in conjuction with
Exchange you can invite people and book resources (like a meeting room,
or projector, or videoconference equipment) in a few clicks. It handles
that very well, to be fair. It's not an excellent mail client, though
it's connectivity over https and offline working works very well now.