Hello,
OK, I understand these are your personal preferences and
that's perfectly fine.
By the way: I *do* like parts of the Office suite, I
bought it and I use Word and Excel quite often and like them.
I am not big fan of the other parts.
PowerPoint is adequate for quick presentations but if
you ever worked with Scala... it has some "wow" factor that PP
misses.
Access, although it is fine for small local,
personal databases, is not for me since I need platform independent stuff
(run all my databases on Linux servers and
I rely on mySQL).
As for Outlook... you know my opinion already
I am not pro- or anti-MS. I think I have quite balanced view
on their products.
I am using their Visual Studio 6 everyday and love it
(although it has its quirks too :-)) - I think it is their best
product to date.
I recently purchased (back in November) Visual Studio
2005
I tried OpenOffice (open source competitor of MS Office) and
my impression was that OO is huge resource hog compared to MS
Office,
which seems to be confirmed by observations other
made:
So MS has good and bad products (at least from my point of
view), so open-source community does.
The intention of original post was not to bash Microsoft but
rather to point out some fact that leads to problems with communication
between different e-mail clients.
Best regards,
Tomasz Janeczko
amibroker.com
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2006 12:42
PM
Subject: RE: [amibroker] For Outlook
(the MS OFFICE Outlook) users...
“You won't loose
formatting if you use HTML”
That is my point and the
pain. I don’t want the HTML formatting with its huge line spacing.
Look at the quote marks in the line above, the closing quote is
different to the opening quote mark. At least for
me.
“As for "position" of
the attachment - you are aware that people not using Outlook won't see
your "positioned" attachments at all - see previous
pointer about TNEF”
The point is that I want
to see them while I am writing the mail.
Anyway, it was useful
information that you provided.
Thanks
From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tomasz
Janeczko
Sent: 15 April
2006 10:32
To:
amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [amibroker] For Outlook
(the MS OFFICE Outlook) users...
1.. You won't loose
formatting if you use HTML
2. As for "position" of
the attachment - you are aware that people not using Outlook won't see
your "positioned" attachments at all - see previous
pointer about TNEF
As for the rest of the
e-mail - I don't have any desire to convince you to drop Outlook. The only
purpose of my original post was to notify
the users of this "that
good" product is that it is not compatible with the rest of the world and
that when you are using TNEF/RTF format
don't be surprised that
other people can not see
attachments.
As for there
remaining part of your e-mail - I don't have time to enter any "Microsoft
evangelism" debate here.
Best
regards,
Tomasz
Janeczko
amibroker.com
----- Original Message -----
Sent:
Saturday, April 15, 2006 8:14 AM
Subject: RE:
[amibroker] For Outlook (the MS OFFICE Outlook)
users...
The reason I
don’t like it is because if I wish to copy some or all of the content of a
mail to another document, I need to copy it to an editor first to lose all
the formatting and double spacing’s you get. It’s a pain.
Also, when I add an attachment, I like to see it in the position that I
attached to in the email, not another bar at the
top.
As I have a good
virus checker that checks each mail as it come in and is sent out, I have
never been infected or lost control of my machine. No one can get on
my machine.
I like Outlook
and haven’t seen any application that allows you to do so much in such an
easy way. The Office suite is used because Microsoft has produced a
product that is good. I have heard a lot of things over the years
about their products. Every time something is found it is broadcast
at full volume. Every time something is found wrong with open source
or competitors products, it ends up in a small corner in the middle of
nowhere. I see a lot of dislike for Microsoft. Apple had the
opportunity to be the number one system. The fact of the matter is
that others spend their time trying to catch up to what Microsoft
produces. One day Microsoft will lose its lead and some other
company will take the lead. Then everyone can start to bash that
company. In the meantime I’ll stick to what I like to
use.
Don’t take this
reply personally
From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tomasz
Janeczko
Sent: 15 April
2006 01:14
To:
amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [amibroker] For Outlook
(the MS OFFICE Outlook) users...
Frankly, I don't see
any practical difference in HTML vs TNEF( RTF), other than HTML is
readable
by everyone which is
good.
And personally I
consider Outlook as worst e-mail client considering the security of your
system.
Outlook exposes OLE
automation interface that most viruses use to broadcast viruses to all
people
you have in your
address book. It is like saying "Hey, virus writers - we have provided you
with wonderfull
easy-to-use tool to
send out copies of your viruses to all our contacts -
please enjoy and use as often as you wish, MS development
team".
Best
regards,
Tomasz
Janeczko
amibroker.com
----- Original Message -----
Sent:
Saturday, April 15, 2006 1:06 AM
Subject: RE:
[amibroker] For Outlook (the MS OFFICE Outlook)
users...
I really dislike
plain text and HMTL. Useful to know though.
Thanks.
-----Original Message-----
From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf
Of Tomasz
Janeczko
Sent: 14 April 2006
23:08
To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [amibroker] For Outlook (the MS OFFICE
Outlook) users...
Hello,
Outlook users please read this, so you are aware that
by default
the attachments
you send to other people are not visible to anyone
else
except other MS Office
Outlook users:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/197066/EN-US/
..and that you should switch to HTML if you want the
rest of the world to
see
what you
write.
Best
regards,
Tomasz
Janeczko
amibroker.com
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