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Re: [News] [Rival] Vista's Mail Client Already Dead?

__/ [ BearItAll ] on Wednesday 09 May 2007 09:13 \__

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>> Microsoft to kick Vista's e-mail app to the curb
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Windows Live Mail will replace Outlook Express on Windows XP and Windows
>> | Mail on Vista in "the coming weeks," said Microsoft.
>> | 
>> | [...]
>> | 
>> | Swapping in the Windows Live Mail client for Vista's Windows Mail
>> | might surprise Vista users, since the operating system has been out
>> | less than four months.
>> `----
>> 
>>
>
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9018858&source=rss_news50
>> 
>> One wonder how this affects exporters. Mail could be used as hostage,
>> holding back those wishing to replace Windows with Linux.
>> 
> 
> You lost me there, how does changing the mail client offer a hostage taking
> situation?


I was thinking about migration utilities (e.g. Thunderbird's wizard).
Microsoft is a moving target here. It would also not be surprising if there
were some Windows and/or IE gotchas, especially with things like Silverlight
being forcefed to the media. If they can't win the Web, they try to change
it. Previously they just killed a company to achieve browser control. Then
ActiveX and other grabage 'HTML'... now .NET...


> Swapping to alternative email clients is very easy these days. But actually
> since moving this company to a better host, I have found that more of my
> users use a mixture of webmail and IMAP. I defaulted those that I could to
> IMAP this time, because the bandwidth of our host is much better than the
> previous host so there are very few occasions where latency problems occur.
> So at home, out of the office or at work they use webmail, as I walk
> arround (I do occasionally leave my office) I am seeing more and more that
> open the webmail instead of their IMAP client.
> 
> In this case the webmail client is Squirrel, I like horde and use that on
> my own hosts. But Squirrel is nice and quick with easy-find features. I
> think that more people will move towards webmail clients and IMAP, simply
> because it means that they can get at the same emails/addressbook/sent
> mails etc where ever they happen to be. It also works very well with PDAs
> and mobile phones.


For consistency, one could use SSH+X forwarding, if bandwidth permits. I
recently moved all my 'Web-based' accounts to the native client. Much
faster.


> Those that were put off in the past because of the latency problems that
> tended go go along with it can look again, because it is much less of a
> problem.


If you have large mail directories in Horde or deal with mailing lists, then
it can become slow, even with tabs. I left Horde after many years of using
it. Not looking back yet...

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