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Heh. I hope they can make a dent. I was driving my son somewhere, and pulled up to a light on the left side of a police cruiser. In it, there was a laptop mount
by TheRealDunkirk 9y ago
Heh. I hope they can make a dent. I was driving my son somewhere, and pulled up to a light on the left side of a police cruiser. In it, there was a laptop mounted high in the passenger area, and the officer was clicking on Outlook. This caused me to launch into a several-minute-long tirade about how awful the interface is. Buttons EVERYwhere. DOZENS of pages of options. USELESS search. I'm content with Mail on my MacBook, but Outlook on my work lap-concrete-block is a daily bane.
Front's product looks heavenly. My guess is that if one of these sorts of startups starts making any serious inroads against Microsoft, they'll release an "Outlook Lite" to stifle the threat. Of course, this simplified version will support plugins, and the world will wind up making enough "mods" to make Outlook "Lite" just as heavy as the original. (Just like what's happening with VS Code.) But it will be enough to hamper serious competition.
And, if they do, then we'll have months of posts on here about how Microsoft is "new," and "adaptive," and "enlightened," etc., et. al., ad nauseam.
- jbob2000 9y agoThey already have "Outlook lite", it's called the Outlook Web App and it has what you want. I don't think Microsoft would be threatened by this at all. Nobody chooses to use Outlook, it's what you get if you work for a big corporation or if you purchase Office 365. It's not a standalone product, I can't just use Outlook. I think it's not doing Front any favours to compare themselves to Outlook. Outlook is an enterprise product, my company has customized the crap out of it and it's hooked up to our global credential/access system. That's not even close to what Front is offering (a better multi-inbox tool).
- rubidium 9y agoSeconding the outlook web interface. It's not perfect, but it's pretty dang good. That plus all else you get with office 365 and I don't think anyone is going to put a serious dent in Microsoft's enterprise office dominance for quite some time.