Q: Why all the hatred todards at MS Outlook?

[bigrash]

Ive been using outlook for years at work. its a sweet piece of software.

 

[Bulldog13]

It's been annoying me lately. I can't open random attachments that my co-workers can. I m not talking .exe files. Random .pdf and .doc can not be opened.

Yes I tried the 345t8568urthy678 million fixes on the internet, to disable or lower security. It just won't let me open them. Outlook XP btw.

 

[spaceman]

too robust for my needs.
i just am not that important/or use other apps

 

[Hyperblaze]

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage

Originally posted by: Hyperblaze

Originally posted by: Proletariat

Originally posted by: Hyperblaze

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage
Outlook rules, who the hell would hate on it and why? Probably Eudora fanbois.. :roll:

we each have our own reasons to use different products.

You sound like an ignorant outlook fanatic by saying the above.

Outlook fanatic? Who the hell is a fanatic of a piece of software? If it does its sh!t and it does it right who the fvck cares.

the guy I was quoting. read for yourself.

I'm not, I use my companys webmail half the time anyway for the record, but in my experience with different mail clients Outlook blows them away in my opinion, want to share with us what you use?

I wrote it just 1-2 posts above your original one

FYI: Back at a company that I was at a few years ago, there was a push to change to Outlook with exchange. That was the moment I officially transferred everything to Linux.
Using Evolution and Connector I had no problems accessing my email or calender functions. The interesting thing is that there was a huge increase in virus related email passing through after the push. I couldn't help but lauigh.

 

[MisterJackson]

Ms Outlook stole my dog and slept with my wife! :|

 

[BurnItDwn]

Reasons I don't like Outlook (though I'm talking about Outlook Express since I've never used just Outlook)

I prefer Newsbin pro and Agent for newsgroups. That combination is FAR more powerful then Outlook.

I prefer to use Pegasus for mail. I can keep my mail DB on one PC and access my mail from any PC on my network. I can use just a regular pop3 server and don't have to store anything on the server.


I don't "hate" outlook, I just see it as an inferior product with less options that isn't as secure.
That being said, I have to use Lotus Notes at work. Lotus notes is a steaming pile of crap. I'd much rather have outlook then lotus notes.

 

[Mill]

I used to like Outlook, but then supporting an Exchange server coupled with massive e-mail DB's that take months to load -- I've started to loathe it.

 

[AccruedExpenditure]

I haven't been to a major corporation that doesn't use Outlook. It as well as the office suite is pretty much the de facto standard in corporate america.

I know some executives that would die without the Calender function...

 

[Rubycon]

PEBKAC.

We have 13 exchange servers and the smallest database is just under 191GB and counting. They do need to do some housecleaning though.

 

[randomlinh]

i like my thunderbird and multiple identies support. works just about the way i want it to.

 

[skyking]

Originally posted by: mzkhadir
Outlook is awesome, there are just some people that don't know what it can do or its features.

Unlike the virus writers of a few years ago, who quickly learned about the nifty features in Outlook and OE that gave them the keys to everything!

 

[Jzero]

If all you need is e-mail and a personal calendar, there are far better solutions available.
However, on the corporate level, for managing e-mail, contacts, resources, calendars, task lists, etc, it simply can't be beat!

 

[PG]

Before Outlook 2003 when your .pst file hit 2 GB in size Outlook crashed and you couldn't open Outlook again until you cut that .pst file down to under 2 GB. This meant data loss and it's a huge pain in the a$$. You never knew what emails would be lost either, sometimes it was only new ones, but sometimes it could be older ones too.

My company still hasn't upgraded to Outlook 2003 and every one of us engineers has hit this 2 GB limit multiple times over the years. When you have real work to do this is about the last thing you need to have to monitor. And people can send huge CAD files to us out of the blue so sometimes it isn't like it's even our fault. I've got 20 to 30 MB of email attachments in one day before.

And yes, sorting emails in a .pst file that is nearly 2 Gb takes forever and sometimes just plain locks up. Maybe nothing out there is any better, but it's a very frustrating piece of software. I hear 2003 if better, but as I said we don't have it yet.

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: PG
Before Outlook 2003 when your .pst file hit 2 GB in size Outlook crashed and you couldn't open Outlook again until you cut that .pst file down to under 2 GB. This meant data loss and it's a huge pain in the a$$. You never knew what emails would be lost either, sometimes it was only new ones, but sometimes it could be older ones too.

My company still hasn't upgraded to Outlook 2003 and every one of us engineers has hit this 2 GB limit multiple times over the years. When you have real work to do this is about the last thing you need to have to monitor. And people can send huge CAD files to us out of the blue so sometimes it isn't like it's even our fault. I've got 20 to 30 MB of email attachments in one day before.

And yes, sorting emails in a .pst file that is nearly 2 Gb takes forever and sometimes just plain locks up. Maybe nothing out there is any better, but it's a very frustrating piece of software. I hear 2003 if better, but as I said we don't have it yet.

Archive is your friend.

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: C6FT7
PEBKAC.

We have 13 exchange servers and the smallest database is just under 191GB and counting. They do need to do some housecleaning though.

And you support each user individually and the servers yourself, right?

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: Mill


And you support each user individually and the servers yourself, right?

Of course not.

I don't like server rooms. I'd much rather be 500 miles offshore playing guitar.

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: PG
Before Outlook 2003 when your .pst file hit 2 GB in size Outlook crashed and you couldn't open Outlook again until you cut that .pst file down to under 2 GB. This meant data loss and it's a huge pain in the a$$. You never knew what emails would be lost either, sometimes it was only new ones, but sometimes it could be older ones too.

This is true, but OTOH it's not that hard to keep an eye on your PST and delete or move very old things to another PST periodically. Besides, you shouldn't use the Exchange server as a file server. That's what file servers are for.