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Goodbye Outlook

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mobrien_12:
Just to clarify.. it's bye bye outlook express.

Outlook stays.

Without outlook, exchange goes away.  Without exchange, there is no need to use MS for mail servers.

xyle_one:
i am for one, glad that they are getting rid of outlook express. my only concern right now is, what are they going to bundle instead? MSN? and some sort of hotmail thing. a similar attack like the one on netscape when they bundled IE. this doesnt sound good.

Stilly:
this is probably some kind of master plan from cumguzlersoft. i mean no more IE and outlook express sounds a little too good to be true....

Faust:
In case anyone doesn't want to clicky clicky the little link:

 
quote:
Microsoft will not do any more development work on the world's most popular Operating System.

It might be the world's most widely distributed Operating System, but Microsoft has confirmed that it has no intention of further developing Windows.

"[Windows] just sits where it is," said Dan Leach, lead product manager for Microsoft's information worker product management group. "The technology doesn't work, and no improvement has been done since 1994. It was a "consumer" Operating System" in an early iteration, and our investment in the consumer space is now focused around advertising and lawyers. That's where we're putting the emphasis in terms of new investment and new development work."

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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39115720,00.htm

Sigh.  Knew it was too good to be true.

[ August 15, 2003: Message edited by: Faust ]

bigsleep:
"I sat down with the Windows team today, and they tell me my comments were inaccurate," Leach said Friday.
Hmm, strange that a product manager for Microsoft makes comments about something he knows nothing about   :D  

I believe from what I've heard that they won't be making any improvements to the free Internet Explorer (there's practically no improvement since IE5.5, except for security patches and bullshit features). And I believe they will be permanently embedding HTML and eMail engines into the OS.
The only reason they made IE (and OE) free in the first place is to directly compete with Netscape (which wasn't free at the time), and of course, to screw up every version of Win95 by fucking up Windows Explorer (and adding the Active Desktop crap).

Who knows what marketing scheme they'll think up next?

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