On 10/07/2019 17:12, Jethro_uk wrote:
On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 16:54:25 +0100, 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 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?

It's totally integrated into Exchange so allows seamless calendar
management across large organisations.

Pretty certain Linux can do the exchange-y bits. But there's no desktop
equivalent to Outlook to go with Word/Excel/Powerpoint.

Most corporate desktops are built on
OS+Browser+Outlook+Word+Excel(+Powerpoint). If that could be reliably
moved to a Linux distro, you could move a lot of regular users off
Microsoft.

Libre office is pretty much all there. Doesn't do meetings an calendars
.. Thunderbird does but not sure about interfacing with others


https://www.linuxlinks.com/Open-XchangeServer/

looks pretty close tho


There will always be custom applications etc etc. But the less people use
it, the easier it should be to port to Linux.

It's no use grumbling to *me* about it. It's how things are.

For myself, I'm creaking along with Evolution. But Outlook, it ain't.



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