no more windows

[Derek Broughton]

Pastor JW wrote:

> On Monday 21 July 2008 07:31:00 am Darren Mansell wrote:
>> On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:19:49 -0500, "Sean Carolan" <scarolan at gmail.com>
> 
>> > Some of us *MUST* keep a Windows installation around for running
>> > programs that are not available in Ubuntu.  In particular, I run
>> > Windows XP inside a virtual machine for the express purpose of running
>> > Outlook (LookOut!).  I don't think using VMware is a waste of time at
>> > all.  Once VMware is set up correctly it works perfectly and allows
>> > extra flexibility that dual-booting can never offer.  Different
>> > strokes for different folks.
>>
>> Can I take this slightly OT and ask why you have to use Outlook?
> 
> I thought that odd also.  Outlook is the very reason I avoid and detest
> windoze!

Because some of us receive mail via Exchange, and the frigin' clients won't
let us have either IMAP access or automated forwarding of email...  I _can_
access the mail through the Exchange Web interface, but it's the most
painful (and slowest) web interface I've ever used - even worse than
Hotmail.
-- 
derek