The Logic Off Topic list

On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 12:41  AM, logic-ot@yahoogroups.com 
wrote:

>  Jeremy Martin <martje@...>
> Subject: Re: Re: Outlook Express (Remove attachment)
>
>
>>>> From: "teddybut" <kumpkin@...>
>>>>> I'm in version 5.5 and there's a command in the "message" menu
>>>>> that says "remove all attachments"... That's what I use.
>>>
>>>> Hmm, I don't get it... I can't find anywhere to remove attachments. 
>>>> I am
>>>> using Outlook Express 6.00.2800 (WINXP Prof).
>>>
>>> Well, you're on Windows. It's weird that Microsuck didn't give you 
>>> Windows
>>> people a full featured free version like they gave us Mac people. 
>>> who would
>>> have thunk that in a million years?

This is the oddest conversation...the full featured Outlook was given 
to PC users.  The Mac users got the scaled down version.  But really, 
the only difference between the two was:
A Calender...that was it...Yet both are virtually Identical.
>
> Personally I think you're both insane for using Outlook Express at all 
> :-)
> Though using M$ products on a Mac seems even more strange than using 
> them
> in Windows..

That is close to being the oddest thing I have ever read.  Especially 
since MS Word and Excel were originally created on the for Mac 
platform.  They were just not owned by MS at the time. Yet Outlook was 
released at the same time for both platforms.

Anyway...
Me Mac, me have used Outlook in the past...no more now...but in the 
past, yes.

Here is why...at the time I found it annoying to keep browsers open for 
emails.  So I opted for an email app.  Used Eudora for a while, then 
found it quite annoying.  Learned of Outlook and found it pleasing, at 
the time.  I don't use it anymore, since OSX has Mail, and that is one 
less thing to bother downloading or keep track of...if I did a system 
overhaul.

But Outlook on the Mac is decent product...really.  You could import 
contact list from ANY other email application, and import ALL your past 
emails right into Outlook.  It's a good product whether Mac or PC.  But 
me, I am just trying to stay away from as much third party crap as I 
can.

Though the problem with Outlook for Windows was vulnerability...that is 
how that nasty "I Love you" virus made its way around.  Yet, again, the 
famous MS "we sacrifice security for functionality".

Peace,
Alexis