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 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?

Talk nicely to Exchange based email systems. Allow configuration and
setting of *server* side things like sophisticated mail filtering, and
very easy to setup and use "out of office" notifications. Also calendar
integration etc.

(there are also things its crap at - like it seems unable to use roaming
profiles with IMAP mailboxes).


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Cheers,

John.

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