Synapse Syndrome

"Jake" <Jaker00at@Yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> It doesn't make sense to me.. Why spend the resources on developing and
> maintaining two different consumer email products ? Why can't a single
> solution be created - call it Microsoft Mail or whatever.. integrate it
> with Hotmail/Live mail and give consumers the features that they've been
> clamoring for for years.. Heck, build this product and sell it for
> $39.95 a copy...
>
> Email is and will continue to move towards the web.. Afterall, MSFT
> itself promotes the concept of "the cloud" where data will be stored..
> Well .. I want my email, contacts, and calendar events IN THE CLOUD and
> I want them accesible from wherever I am. I want a local/client based
> app that I can manage and maintain it all with, making contact and
> calendar changes locally and having those replicated to the cloud.. .
> Afterall I use ONE PC most of the time and I like the performance and
> uniqueness of a separate email client as opposed to just another browser
> window opened up all the time to hotmail, or some other web based email
> service.. I won't use such a browser based email client. I want
> reminders to come out of the cloud and hit me like a lightening bolt..
> (well maybe not that hard) ,,, I want all this 5 years ago, not 5
> years from now..
>
> So far I've not been convinced to upgrade to Vista.. However, a solid,
> reliable, easily accesible and managable email/contacts/calendar system
> is SO IMPORTANT to me that I would without question upgrade to Vista
> Premium for this capability alone. What I see now is a hodgepoge of
> features scattered about using different methodologies that's confusing,
> unappealing, and downright of little value.. So I'm going to stay with
> XP .. I see no reason to switch at this time..
>
>
> Why is this such a big deal that it hasn't been done yet?
> Is it an anti-trust issue?
> Is it perhaps a lack of vision?
> Is it primarily a profit driven issue where creating such a program may
> compete with Outlook with it's exclusive exchange connectivity? I doubt
> it..
> Is it a lack of ....(deep breath).. i n n o v a t i o n ?
>
>
> Outlook is a fine product but it is afterall geared more to the business
> market and exchange connectibity.. Consumers want this kind of
> functionality also though and it's time someone delivers it. The first
> imap based email service provider that develops their own local PC based
> client that offers all these features will get my business. I'd pay
> more than $20 per year for this service and capability.
>
> Microsoft has a golden opportunity to uniquely create and offer a
> feature rich email product for consumers with fantastic services and
> functionality that I'm sure would be wildly successful and take years
> for competitors to catch up with.. Yet they're stumbling along with no
> apparent direction whatsoever building multiple consumer products that
> come up short in so many essential features but overlap each other with
> ordinary and common features ..... creating a huge amount of confusion
> and frustration..
>
>
> I'll keep an eye on Thunderbird but as long as it lacks an integrated
> calendar I'm going to sit on the sidelines.. I'll definately get it
> when it's ready.


http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/

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