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Re:Microsoft’s Very Good Day by loudmax on Thursday October 08, 2015 @07:58AM (#10352094)
I just transitioned to a new job that uses Exchange for email, and it feels like the old Microsoft. The only way I've found to get Thunderbird to connect to Exchange's IMAP is by using a proprietary add-on. A lot of .doc and .xls files get passed around that I can't modify in LibreOffice without screwing up the formatting. The hardest part of getting work done on a Linux desktop isn't the drivers, it's interoperability with MS Office.

So it is good that MS is been moving in the right direction, but there's still a lot of legacy crap holding back innovation.

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Re:Microsoft’s Very Good Day by mariusmg on Thursday October 08, 2015 @08:03AM (#10352114)
Aaaa....why not use IMAP/POP3 ? If the server administrator only allows that dumb proprietary protocol, you can't really blame Microsoft there.
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Re:Microsoft’s Very Good Day by tdkl on Thursday October 08, 2015 @08:24AM (#10352219)
Exchange isn't popular in Enterprise just because of email and to say "just use IMAP/POP" is showing that you're out of touch.
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Re:Microsoft’s Very Good Day by tluyben2 on Thursday October 08, 2015 @11:41AM (#10353468)
Although I do not know why it is successful but you are right; mail is definitely not the reason why it is popular. But I don't think it is for the reasons you think it is popular either. Of all my 25-early 40 year old friends working in enterprises, exactly 0 people like it and they avoid it like the plague when they can. They like it slightly more than Sharepoint, but that's not saying much. To why it is popular still I would wager that's because enterprises just 'have it' and you have no other choice; you are forced to use it. But you were probably going to say 'collaboration' ?
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Re:Microsoft’s Very Good Day by anon4 on Friday October 09, 2015 @04:37AM (#10358809)
Why not just run Windows in a VM (or Linux in a VM) and be happy?
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