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employees & porn -- pure misdirection on your part and a waste of
everyones bandwidth. Your claim that there is some huge potential market of users using OE for free that will pay to switch to Outlook simply because yEnc support umm, cookie? what claim? where did i make the claim that OE users will migrate to O due to yEnc? please quote me. what i did say, was that making OE the best client it can be is in MS own interests, and follows their familar pattern. please wipe the film from your glasses and take a look at IE, Windows Media Player, and MS Photo Editor. all of which follow the same MS basic plan.... look around at what other successful apps do, copy it, bundle it for free in the OS. now, if youre asking me to explain specifically why they do this, i wont be able to. it is a conversation of its own with many interesting aspects, im sure. my own speculation is they do this for market domination, trying to get the biggest userbase possible and in some cases ween them to another product (i migrated from OE mail to Outlook many years ago) or sell them addition services and/or ad revenue. i also think they have a paranoid need to block off all corporate competion--and to MS, everyone is competition. what do they stand to gain by attracting consumers w/ Photo Editor, instead of letting those consumers buy Adobe's Photoshop LE? but its their basic model. if you cant concede that, whatever. i stopped using OE completely because it lacks yEnc. Xnews is okay, free, and has yEnc, but id just as soon use OE since its there (thus, i am appeasing the MS model of bundling everything in the OS). which brings me back to my original point in posting, before you freakishly decided you had to bust a nut on your keyboard while telling me why it's so wrong.... so, w/o further adieu: Dear MS, Would you please include yEnc in your OE product? I would find that very useful. Thank you. matt |
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"crap, ive been archived." He's flipped. |
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"crap, ive been archived."
wrote in message ... employees & porn -- pure misdirection on your part and a waste of everyones bandwidth. Your claim that there is some huge potential market of users using OE for free that will pay to switch to Outlook simply because yEnc support umm, cookie? what claim? where did i make the claim that OE users will migrate to O due to yEnc? please quote me. "lets spell it out.... OE users = potential O users" Your inference was that OE user will become Outlook users in large enough users for Microsoft to see a significant revenue from that migration. |
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He's flipped.
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umm, cookie? what claim? where did i make the claim that OE users will
migrate to O due to yEnc? please quote me. "lets spell it out.... OE users = potential O users" Your inference was that OE user will become Outlook users in large enough users for Microsoft to see a significant revenue from that migration. ...actually, no, that does not support your claim that i said *yEnc* will cause users to migrate to O. that simply was not what i said. you may choose to mis-read it, but that doesnt change it. reading thru the posts, its pretty clear. you: "why should MS do any favors by improving their free products?" me: "because they want to have the best products available" you: "why?" me: "because its market share domination and potential upgrades". in the para immediately above my OE = potential O users, the subject was MS' "free products", and i named two, OE and IE. there is no specificality, and no inference that yEnc is going to cause people to migrate to O. in fact the idea of that doesnt make any sense -- O doesnt *have* a newsreader, it uses OE. so if OE were patched to support yEnc, that wouldnt upsell O upgrade at all. however, this does not detract from my overall point, which you conviently ignored -- a) MS bundles free apps that do what other commerical apps do. b) they obviously do this for a very real purpose c) thus they should try to make the marketshare-stealer apps as functional as possible. thats to answer you "why should they do you any favors" line of serf thinking. i used another example of one of their freebie apps, the MS Photo Editor, which is clearly targetting Adobe's home user marketshare. then theres, IE vs Netscape, WMP vs Real, etc... i mentioned all of those examples, conviently ignored by you. welp, its been real, "Vanguard". sadly, im going to be in new orleans the rest of the weekend. but say hi to the ham radio club for me, and ill pick this up monday! matt |
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