"brandon" said in
you know, for all the updates they've had for office which they make
us pay full price for, you'd think it'd be no stretch of hte mind to
include a built-in newsreader into Outlook via the same methods
employed in the oh-so-simple Outlook Express. 2 e-mail clients just
because one has a newsreader and the other doesn't, bloatware at its
finest... My recommendation, include this in a service pack - it's
clearly a flaw.
And Outlook doesn't do spreadsheets and hence you have a separate
product called Excel. Outlook doesn't do flowcharts and hence you use
something like Visio. Outlook doesn't do C++, VB, or .NET programming
so you get something like Visual Studio .Net. Outlook doesn't do
graphics or PDF documents so you get Photoshop or Acrobat. What a
cheapskate. You want one product to do everything for you but, of
course, you're not willing to pay for it. Outlook is PIM (personal
information manager) that happens to include e-mail and is really
designed to be used in corporate environment, and just happens to work
okay for just one lone user sitting at home. Outlook Express used to be
called Internet Mail & News and is a completely different product that
started and remains focused on "personal" use. They are not code
siblings. OE isn't a "lite" version of Outlook. Just because Word and
WordPerfect and MS Office and OpenOffice both have a word in their names
that match doesn't mean they do the same thing, that they are related or
family products, or that one is a lite version of the other. You get OE
for free and still you bitch. Go use Forte Agent or some other NNTP
client if you want. I don't want newsgroups in Outlook anymore than I
want Word to usurp the functions for SQL. Yeah, like I want to load a
huge program to perform a small non-associated function.
