"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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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?

One of the more capable calendars particularly with synched multi person
event scheduling. Of course there are now cloud calendars that do that too,
just like with email now too. Good api that allows you to add events from
access and excel etc.