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Story: Microsoft: Forget BI apps, the future is LOBi

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Bull! Quote, "Business people know Outlook and know how to use it....", unquote. I dare you to spend 1 hour at a helpdesk of your choice and thus find out how well business people know Outlook for real. Simply because it's so bloated that it's nearly impossible for anyone but properly trained and battle hardend experienced IT professionals to use it as you're supposed to (keep in mind that just Outlook gives you nothing, you'll have to include Exchange, Windows, AD, anti-virus and likely a few other things as well to even begin using the basics). And how things work and react differs between OL on-line mode, OL off-line mode, Exchange functional mode, OWA, OMA, Windows functional mode, Office suite version in place, patch level, third-party tools inplace, add-ons in place, security configuration in place, AD policies in place, Exchange policies in place, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc. You think you know Outlook? Well, try to support a dozen or more Outlook enabled environments. Then we'll talk.

Quote, "familiar Microsoft Office tools", unquote. Another dream, since most of us are very well experienced with having to deal with "new and improved" Microsoft Office product upgrades that on the one hand look familiair but on the other hand have been "optimized due to customer feedback" to such an extend that we might as well have learned to work with a less costly alternative. The learning curve involved would have been just as great but the overall cost a whole lot less. Tax payers, are you listening? What's your (local) government choosing as their next default workplace applications before the coming elections?

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