The desktop wars

[Joe Klemmer]

Peter Gordon wrote:

> While this is great from an administrative point of view, I find it
> hard to believe that the average user would change their mail setup
> so drastically to be interoperable with other OSes. Yes, Exchange
> does suck. Quite a lot. But I think compability and interoperability
> of this nature is one of the "Killer features" of Linux today.

	Most of the users we had to do this for were quite surprised that MS
didn't use IMAP by default.  The change is far from drastic, too.

> In fact, I'd say that having to implement such a drastic change would
> actually *discourage* potential users.

	That's what MS hopes will happen.  Why do you think they use
non-standard, closed, broken formats for their data files?


Joe