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> Outlook is one of the best mail clients out there, not many can disagree about that. > You aren’t going to out Office Microsoft that is just a fools errand.
by ben509 8y ago
> Outlook is one of the best mail clients out there, not many can disagree about that.
> You aren’t going to out Office Microsoft that is just a fools errand.
Having used Outlook for a while, even on Windows, I'm shocked that people describe Outlook as good.
It may be the least worst, but Outlook is, being generous, a very mediocre piece of software. That's Microsoft's strategy in a nutshell: be Good Enough for a very large audience.
> Also by essentially building a client for Exchange you are putting your product at the mercy of Microsoft that can change their APIs and protocol on a whim and even block 3rd party clients with their EULA all together.
That used to be true, but they're far more constrained by their installed base these days.
- _emacsomancer_ 8y ago> That's Microsoft's strategy in a nutshell: be Good Enough for a very large captive audience.
- pjmlp 8y agoOutlook is wonderful when compared against the competition, specially when you are unlucky enough to use Lotus Notes as alternative.