[K12OSN] MS Outlook coming with MS Office <was: Bottom post>

[Jim Hays]

When I have a problem here at our schools with Spyware and Viruses on a 
machine, I remove Outlook (Lookout?) Express and replace it with 
Thunderbird and remove the IE icons and replace with Firefox. 



Terrell Prudé, Jr. wrote:

> On the subject of MS Outlook and MS Office, there's a great way to 
> introduce Free/Open Source Software to those still wedded to Microsoft 
> Windows.  Instead of loading MS Office, you can install OpenOffice.org 
> and Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird on their 32-bit Windows boxes and say 
> that it's a needed "security fix".  Only later down the road do you 
> clue them in that they're not using MS Office.  :-)  And, of course, 
> you rename the "Mozilla Firefox" icon to "Netscape".
>
> The Thunderbird suggestion assumes, of course, that you're not using 
> MS Exchange Server as your mail server.  To my knowledge, Evolution, 
> with its now-GPL'd MS Exchange Connector, hasn't yet been ported to 
> Win32, and I personally don't know of any plans to do so (there may 
> be, I just don't know them).  If you are using Exchange Server, then 
> the bosses'll probably expect and demand Outlook...but OpenOffice.org 
> and Firefox can still be options, and a good intro.
>
> I am using exactly this strategy now with a customer of mine.  Several 
> of their XP boxes have OO.o, Tbird, and Firefox.  The boss has also 
> installed MS Office, since he's paranoid about file compatibility, but 
> his chief lieutenant has only OO.o and doesn't really know the 
> difference.  Said lieutenant is, though, absolutely tickled pink that 
> his box is just as junk-free and fast today as it was 4-5 months ago 
> when I rebuilt it (it was really, really bad!).  This will take time, 
> but with patience, I see the eventual result.  :-)
>
> --TP
>
> norbert wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Unfortunately Outlook comes as part of Microsoft Office 
>> ............... hmm well after some thought I should say fortunately 
>> !!! since it's a great "backdoor" opening for hackers.... not that I 
>> would hack anything ....
>>
>> norbert
>>
>> pfaffman at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 13:25:26 -0500, David H. Barr 
>>> <david at okgoodwill.org> wrote:
>>>  
>>>
>>>> And the answer for many of you Outlook users is (perhaps) QuoteFix
>>>> (http://jump.to/outlook-quotefix).   
>>>
>>>
>>> I didn't think that anyone who had the time and energy to install
>>> software used Outlook.
>>>   
>>
>
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