Monday, December 15, 2008

Outlook at home . . . .

Read Ed Brill's blog entry about the old "Everyone uses outlook at home" adage for pro-M$ folks when looking at email platforms. Interesting insights from a few, some bashing from more than a few, and same old same old from the rest.
In my house Outlook doesn't exist - Express or otherwise - and hasn't done so for many years. I use T-Bird and I've set up my wife's PC to use the same. My machines go one step further - both have Open Office and neither have MS Office! I'm working to remove all MS products from the systems we have but the one stumbling block will be moving to Linux - it may take some new hardware and parallel running to convince my better half it's worth it . . ..