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- Gizza, on 01/30/2009, -28/+598Since when has Outlook been destroyed? I'd wager it's still used in 95% of the corporate world, which probably accounts for 95% of non-span email.
- Oinkie, on 01/30/2009, -28/+499*Gmail's Spam Filter killed Outlook
- KibibyteBrain, on 01/30/2009, -6/+272I actually don't even understand this at all. Gmail is a web email service. Outlook is a corporate PIM solution. How the heck are they even comparable. I can reserve conference rooms at work with outlook, how is Gmail competing there? Why is it that blogs and digg always full of people who have no idea about computers outside of their own little bubble of use?
- tattertech, on 01/30/2009, -6/+158So Google lets you host your own servers now?
What, no? Hmm, doesn't sound like it killed Outlook then. - jsqurred, on 01/30/2009, -9/+147the author of article and poster is an idiot. I love gmail like any other person but I still have some sense of reality
gmail has some catching up to do before it bests outlook as a enterprise class application that integrates all types of office workflows
if you use outlook for your personal/casual e-mail checking, you're probably overkilling on functionality - toast24, on 01/30/2009, -7/+114I would venture to say that Outlook is pretty far from dead at this point. In the consumer / family world, perhaps the opposite, but in the business world, Outlook still reigns supreme. It would be totally jumping the gun to say that an Open Labs feature has already killed an established platform.
- krystalo, on 01/30/2009, -12/+113What a joke, buried as innacurate.
- ilgaz, on 01/30/2009, -6/+72Companies actually using Outlook (or notes) have dedicated devices on network (like ironport) to prevent spam/viruses.
If you actually use/used Outlook for personal mail, you are insane. - njhardc0re, on 01/30/2009, -3/+65Most people here are probably not even in the corporate world yet (stupid college kids) and never even used Outlook.
- wo0dy, on 01/30/2009, -11/+54If anyone goes to a business school you will appreciate everything Entourage for Mac or Outlook for PC has to offer.
Not sure if there is an open office app like that or not..? - lornefs, on 01/30/2009, -2/+44I agree (not with the 60%), any company concerned with privacy will stick with Outlook.
How many people really use Outlook as a personal email client anyway? - vexingmodstwo, on 01/30/2009, -11/+51What is this *****?
Oh, its a bunch of dorks arguing about their personal email application. - thebaron2, on 01/30/2009, -5/+42[citation needed]
- ThirdPrize, on 01/30/2009, -0/+35Well said.
- duihomer, on 01/30/2009, -1/+36Outlook has nothing to do with where your email is. I get my Exchange email everywhere; on Outlook at the office, on Outlook Web Access at home, and on my phone via ActiveSync.
- orion846, on 01/30/2009, -5/+37what sensationalist ridiculousness. i haven't had a job, and don't know anyone with a job, that didn't use outlook for their company's exchange server. all you kids in your parents' basement have this weird notion that apple and google are taking over everything in the real world, in your name.
- jakem1, on 01/30/2009, -19/+49You couldn't be more wrong and GMail has a long way to go before it can beat the convenience and power of Outlook and Exchange. I have Outlook setup to connect to my Exchange server over HTTP and have a Hotmail account setup as well. With Outlook 2007 I can search across both instantly and it's very easy. I also have on and offline access to all my contacts, calendar appointments, tasks, etc.
- inactive, on 01/30/2009, -12/+42Tired of seeing these fail articles about GMail's email client being something revolutionary.
FFS. They got a long way to go. Opera's built in mail client, Thunderbird, WLMail and many other mail reading applications have been busy raping the scene and doing all this ***** for ages - and not just with GMail emails. - jakem1, on 01/30/2009, -3/+30Outlook is more than just a corporate PIM solution and works perfectly for home use as well.
- calu99, on 01/30/2009, -0/+24If you are in a business environment, you should have tested this before you ever rolled it out to users, I know we did, and it works fine. I have actually had to do individual messages, mailboxes, and entire message stores. Never had a problem.
Of course, I also have a backup solution designed for Exchange, not just the crap built into Windows. - roodammy44, on 01/30/2009, -2/+26@juzsp:
Talking to people. Maybe researching an article before writing it? - inactive, on 01/30/2009, -5/+27Couldnt disagree with macenvy more. Outlook 2007 has the instant search feature, which is as powerful as anything ive ever seen. Exchange servers blow pop and imap out of the water for more reasons than one.
Calendar sharing is another feature that gmail does not have as far as i know. Can you schedule meetings with co-workers using their calendars and gmail to find the best time for you as you can in outlook? Again not that im aware of.
Id agree that for a home user,Gmail doesnt get much better, especially for its price, but i sincerely doubt anyone is going to see large corporations and universities dropping the power of outlook to get gmail, its simply not there yet. - inactive, on 01/30/2009, -5/+27I've been using IMAP with gmail for over a year. Works fine with any client that understands IMAP, including, ironically, outlook.
- Canuck, on 01/30/2009, -1/+23I can name 3: HP, Intel & Microsoft.
- buckeyefrank, on 01/30/2009, -1/+22Yeah, what will replace Microsoft Exchange Server? My office uses some pretty nice capabilities of this. I can call my MS Exchange inbox, and listen to my emails. I can reply to these emails with a voice mail, which attaches as a wmv to my email response. Also, whenever I miss a call at the office, I am emailed, and the voicemail is attached to this email.
Can Gmail do any of that? - adriandeleon, on 01/30/2009, -4/+25I have to use Outlook for corporate email, and in 4 years I have only seen one or two spam mail reach my inbox.
If your admin knows what he's doing, spam can be controlled, no mater what platform. - PigGeneral, on 01/30/2009, -0/+21@lemur
In Exchange the Rooms all have calendar accounts for themselves (at least in my company). And you cut off a block from your calendar, invite the room, and it blocks off the room for that period of time. No email to facilities needed. - JohnFrum, on 01/30/2009, -2/+23Outlook is a great way to get gmail. Gmail is an email service, outlook is an email reader. The two work great together.
And if you've been using outlook to get your gmail, you've had this new feature all along. - jakem1, on 01/30/2009, -4/+24GMail doesn't respect privacy yet either.
- hiro, on 01/30/2009, -0/+20I wouldn't, I use Outlook for my business and home email. I do use Gmail as a throwaway acct if I don't want to give anyone my proper email address but that's it. Google can only dream of killing Outlook I'm afraid.
- sexybobo, on 01/30/2009, -8/+28Some companies can not afford a technician to maintain there email system. Currently we are with another third party email provider thinking of switching to gmail hosted email. This is how the conversation is going.
CEO: "We can save 10k a year by switching to Gmail?"
IT: "Yes and we can also drop all the spam filtering services we currently pay for."
CEO: "How is the support?"
IT: "They have free 24 hour phone support with the call center in America."
IT: "They also with give use 4 year email retention free."
CEO: "Cool." - jakem1, on 01/30/2009, -4/+23You should be ashamed to even mention Lotus Notes.
- insertAliasHere, on 01/30/2009, -1/+20Honestly, not many. Most don't know anything different, except maybe their personal hotmail or yahoo mail or aol mail.
Outlook is full of nice features, especially for enterprise users with an Exchange server like our company. But I have always just found webmail to be so much more convenient for personal use. - jonr, on 01/30/2009, -2/+21You know, there are many people in the country today who, through no fault of their own, are sane. Some of them were born sane. Some of them became sane later in their lives. It is up to people like you and me who are out of our tiny little minds to try and help these people overcome their sanity.
- briLo, on 01/30/2009, -6/+25I've never used gmail.
- specialK16, on 01/30/2009, -3/+21I for one, can name 2 major companies that use Outlook/Exchange.
HP and Intel. - lnxfi, on 01/30/2009, -6/+24Shut up. Please, just shut up.
Next up: Mac/Linux/Bacon killed Vista. - MacEnvy, on 01/30/2009, -0/+17If your company is switching *to* Novell at this point, for the love of god, find a new job. Your company has fallen on hard times.
- njhardc0re, on 01/30/2009, -0/+16hrmm.. uh no
- przemeklach, on 01/30/2009, -8/+24I agree that outlook is far from dead. In a large company environment the true power of outlook comes out but I've always felt that it was overkill for the average home user. For years I just used the online version of hotmail but recently I downloaded Windows Live Mail and it has been working great. Nice lite app that is linked to my online calendar and allows me to manage multiple email accounts.
- Scott2, on 01/30/2009, -0/+15Anyone who has ever used Entourage knows that it is not appreciated by anyone, ever.
- InorganicMatter, on 01/30/2009, -5/+20Outlook is dead?
Well crap, guess I'll have to find a new fully-supported enterprise-grade Exchange Server client! - analogkid01, on 01/30/2009, -0/+15What is this "email"?
- specialK16, on 01/30/2009, -3/+18I do. O did some time ago. Thing is I would let my gmail sync to outlook, and then sync it to my WM5 phone.
- 11oops, on 01/30/2009, -0/+13[Citation needed]
- ilgaz, on 01/30/2009, -10/+23Hell, Outlook killed by some third party freeware. Slate guy should ask their previous owner (MS) how stupid, absurd thing he is suggesting with that article.
If I were him, I would get a account from Digg and "bury" my own story to prevent further embarrassment.
I heard IBM is in panic too, Lotus notes users are all moving to "Gmail utility" :) - jakem1, on 01/30/2009, -0/+13@juzsp: You don't have to have any idea outside your bubble. However, the problem here is people making great claims about topics they generally know nothing about.
For instance, once you know how extensively Outlook is used you would know how ridiculous the statement "How Gmail Destroyed Outlook" really sounds. - thebaron2, on 01/30/2009, -0/+13I definitely wouldn't. Exchange server kicks ass - it syncs with everything I could possibly want. My Blackberry, my Cardscan for all of my business cards and contacts, calendar programs.
Gmail is reserved for the email I use when I have to sign up for website memberships. It's just full of thousands upon thousands of pieces of worthless junk mail. - ic4rus, on 01/30/2009, -4/+17I've actually just moved to Outlook over g mail. I still use g mail for all my personal mail but I've just started a business and it's a much better environment that a web based solution for dealing with all my business filings.
Outlook is not dead, and it hasn't been killed. Digg simply buried it because it's not Apple. - jboitnott, on 01/30/2009, -61/+74Outlook destroyed itself in many ways. Hard to use and very hard to search for anything. Gmail is of course the exact opposite.
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