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- wildjohn999, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6"Do people just not like it because it's from Microsoft?"
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"America bad/hypocritical, [insert semi-communist country here] good" - Moose_Head, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I think We Hate Tech said it best:
Outlook is the business standard for a reason. Once you are out of your parent's basement you will realize that people want something which is familiar and just works.
There is a reason Yahoo is copying the outlook "look". It is the same reason why Open Office copies Microsoft's look. - mutant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This is hilarious.. I put all sorts of stuff into emails to outlook friends just to harras them. Notably Warmachine Taunts.. KHADOR RULES!!
- bonzooznob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@stylerm
Uhm... "I would only consider this if outlook sent emails were not compatible with other mail programs for reading."
This is a joke right? Outlook does sent wonky emails... can anyone say RTF? winmail.dat? Proprietary, messed up, TNEF attachments?
I'm all for Outlook doing whatever they want, if they don't mess up the rest of the 'Net at the same time.
I laugh when someone sends me a calendar invite... and I reply, "yeah, sure I'll be there." to which they can't understand why I didn't magically get added to a list of attendees (naive users).
I laugh when I see Outlook users send attachments, that many can't open, including some Outlook express users...
I laugh when I see that in the winmail.dat file, the user is sending me all kinds of info, including where Outlook is installed on their machine.
I laugh when I see that every Outlook user has to turn off JavaScript, because there are too many security risks.
I laugh when I see Outlook users opening nested email after nested email, in blind faith that they will eventually get to something...
So, to wrap up... is the original digg interesting? you bet!... should we all gang up on Outlook... well, that depends on your view... I'm just glad I don't have to use it... at home or work. - joeyjojo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is as old as Outlook is. And it's annoying as hell. Yea, MS sucks, blah, blah, but some of us aren't given a CHOICE of email clients during our 9-5 gigs.
- hawks5999, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Bad title, but still a good digg. Why don't people sell this space in their outgoing messages. I'd much prefer metaspam that used this feature. "This message brought to you by Amazon.com" if you could include an affiliate link it would be awesome.
- Bren, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nothing wrong with messing with people a little - but no reason to pick on outlook: the story link has an example that uses a header that isn't just picking on outlook. Could be fun, if you don't do it just to blast a piece of software that works okay. I mean really.... it's just email... how complicated does it need to be?
- grizwald, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0what does everyone have against outlook? i think it is a pretty darn good email client. never had 1 problem
- mindsinker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've had nothing but trouble with outlook. Always freezes and locks up.
- Vektuz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Outlook plugins can be made to do this too
- stylerm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nothing to digg here.
I wonld onyl consider this if outlook sent emails were not compatible with other mail programs for reading. - raisinbran, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0how to "punk" outlook users? i hate outlook as much as the next guy, but what is this, mtv?
- sedgemonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Dang, I'm amazed at all the crap digs that are on the front page lately. Outlook is one of the few MS products that I would recommend to anyone. It's simple, powerful and I've never had a single problem with it. Do people just not like it because it's from Microsoft?
- marten, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The problem with Outlook is that 99% of it's users don't do any kind of prefixing quoted lines...
- xerves, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wow, thanks for the WHT plug :-). Outlook is pretty much the standard if you are going to be running exchange. It comes with exchange..yada yada yada. Now, if we are talking about Outlook Express....
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Who really cares what apps people use to check their mail? At best you'll look like a pompous ass.
Being a l337 smart-ass does not a digg make. - MacGyver, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I can't believe you actually said "how to punk", I thought only ashton kutcher talked like that.
- franoculator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0begin
Oh wait, that bug is fixed now, isn't it.
Silly me. It only took them 10 years. - keng, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"I can't believe you actually said "how to punk", I thought only ashton kutcher talked like that."
It's retro
;o) - danieleran, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Don't confuse an idea with how it's used.
You could add an annoying fanboy line in your email signature too, but that doesn't make email sigs in general a bad idea.
A banner that only shows up in Outlook could be handy for identifying what client the email was sent from. So Mac OS X users can add the X-Message-Flag: "Sent using Mac OS X Mail" like this:
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/weblog/dan/2005/10/19/SetMailapptodisplaybannermes.html - Otto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm just glad I work in a non-Microsoft shop. I mean, I hate our mail system, but at least it's not Exchange and I don't have to use Outlook.
- rhyno2000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Outlook is great. Use it at home and work, by choice. (Along with other kewl apps like Firefox, Filezilla, etc.) Haven't had a single problem with it on dozens of machines since the 97 version (classic "Microsoft 1.0). Ignorant M"$" (ha!) bashers, who mostly just don't want to buy the program, be damned.
- peerk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0OMG you like totally punked them DooD!1
- darthsnoopy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0ouch. One of the things I hated about slashdot was that they would turn anything into an anti MS/Apple/AOL/Real/Whatever fest. While I may not love every company, 'hacks' don't have to turn into mindless bashing, they can just be interesting for geek sake. This works on several clients, as mentioned above. Also, there's a lot more creative things to put into the field than just an adolescent punking. Mutant's comment would've made this digg a lot more interesting...
- J03L, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Off topic:
Sometimes the popularity of a post to the poster isn't measured by the number of diggs, but by the degree of feedback. Even Negative comments mean someone is taking the time enough to read the post and was affected enough to comment on it. Often times, you will find the same number of posts on a great digg story as one that is crap... Kinda interesting to me. Thanks for reading. - keng, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I really wasn't trying to start a brawl about Outlook that just happens to be one of the few email clients that support this kind of thing (I don't think the author mentioned the others).
I use it at work and like it as much as any mail client but it's too dangerous to use at home (and no I don't use Pine there). - forrest, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0lmao +2 wildjohn.
xerves had it right...if this were bashing outlook express, I would totally agree. At work, my email client has to work 100% with exchange including tasks and appointments - which leaves Outlook. - Nyghtewynd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I tried Firefox. It works great. I don't touch IE any more.
I tried Thunderbird. It stunk. It can't carry Outlook's jock.
Apples and oranges. Oh, yeah--and no digg. - WackyT, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Oops! Now all 3 Thunderchicken users on the internet will be modifying their headers. I'll be sure to keep an eye out.
- charmedguy18, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Outlook is so much better than thunderbird. Thunderbird sucks!
- keng, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0stupid wind!
- psyonide, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0It's amazing how easily offended you people are. Sometimes I think that if, say, the wind blew in the wrong direction you'd get offended by that too.
- keng, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Ha! "Thunderchicken" i almost put that in the post but didn't think anyone would get it!
Man, my buddy in high school got mad when we called his car that! - jmyhasuk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0How about instead of imposing stupid sophomoric restrictions on users, we let them decide on what they like instead? No digg.
- 404notfound, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0What the *****? "Punk" is not a ***** verb; MTV and Ashton Kutcher can go ***** themselves.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1lol I'm trying this right now
http://www.gmailinvitation.com - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1this is the dumbest *****. quit being ***** ***** and let someone use what they want. who has problems with outlook? no one except ***** retards. reported for lame
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