[ale] Leaving Linux for Outlook plugin

Tim Watts timtw at earthlink.net
Sat Nov 22 08:18:35 EST 2008


Gotta say, Jim, that was my 1st thought. So one plugin is going to save her so 
much work AND offset the negatives of switching to Outlook/XP? In the words 
of Seinfeld, "That is one magic loogie".


On Friday 21 November 2008 11:40 pm, Jim Kinney wrote:
> That sounds like a total snow job of a sales pitch this recruiter has been
> hit with. I would be very interested in seeing a plugin that would so
> improve outlook that it approaches the functionality of Thunderbird...
> </sarcasm>
>
> How about just outlook in wine?
>
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 7:43 PM, PairOfTwins 
<PairOfTwins at mindspring.com>wrote:
> > Anyone:
> >
> > A recruiter who has been enjoying Linux for years asked me to replace it
> > with XP!  Regrettably, she explains that a special Outlook plugin would
> > save her so much work she could cut back her assistant's hours.  I'm
> > suggesting XP in a VM, but she's hesitant due to speed issues.  Also it
> > seems that this Outlook plugin would save stuff to her desktop, and
> > she's afraid of having stuff spread across her Linux desktop and XP
> > desktop.
> >
> > Any suggestions would be appreciated...
> >
> > A nice VM that put an Outlook icon on her Linux desktop, and saved to
> > her Linux desktop...
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tom
> >
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