Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on Linux

Re:Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on L... by ben509 on Monday July 23, 2018 @05:03PM (#17595988)

> Outlook is one of the best mail clients out there, not many can disagree about that.

> You aren’t going to out Office Microsoft that is just a fools errand.

Having used Outlook for a while, even on Windows, I'm shocked that people describe Outlook as good.

It may be the least worst, but Outlook is, being generous, a very mediocre piece of software. That's Microsoft's strategy in a nutshell: be Good Enough for a very large audience.

> Also by essentially building a client for Exchange you are putting your product at the mercy of Microsoft that can change their APIs and protocol on a whim and even block 3rd party clients with their EULA all together.

That used to be true, but they're far more constrained by their installed base these days.

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Re:Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on L... by _emacsomancer_ on Monday July 23, 2018 @07:20PM (#17596854)

> That's Microsoft's strategy in a nutshell: be Good Enough for a very large captive audience.

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Re:Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on L... by pjmlp on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @12:59AM (#17598220)

Outlook is wonderful when compared against the competition, specially when you are unlucky enough to use Lotus Notes as alternative.

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