MS Kills OE
Microsoft has killed Outlook Express, one of their few applications that actually kicked ass - as in exceeded user expectations. MS has confirmed that they have no intentions of further developing Outlook Express.
This really sucks. I loved that app. It was, without a doubt, the best Windows POP client going. It was featured enough in its first version to lure me away from Eudora and I never looked back. From time to time, corporate pressures tempted me to move to Outlook, but I always found it too bloated and complex to use it for any serious length of time. I'm using Thunderbird now, having switched to IMAP, and I suppose that I won't have any real options to move to at any point in the future. Microsoft's loss is Mozilla's gain in this case - it looks like they've just gained a user for life.
See this post as it first appeared on Blogware.
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(name not saved), August 14, 2003
Oh, this sucks.
I'm with you, Ross. I keep trying to go to Outlook, and it keeps pissing me off. There's just too much there. And while I suppose using Word for my email editor might be a neat idea, I can't figure out why I want to launch an app that sucks up 50MB of memory just to dash off a note in email.
(name not saved), August 14, 2003
Hmm. I wonder if this is real. I can't find the source (if you follow the chain of blog entries, this is ultimately attributed to ZDNet, but I'll be damned if I can find the original posting).
(name not saved), August 15, 2003
As someone who supports email users, I'm bloody glad this is going away... hopefully Outlook is next. Their error messages are horrible and typically send users to the incorrect service provider when they cannot send or receive their mail. For Windows, use "The Bat!": http://www.ritlabs.com/the_bat/