Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 16:55:11 -0800 From: "Freddie Cash" <fcash@ocis.net> To: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on the desktop (was: TheRegister article on Hotmail) Message-ID: <3DDFB2EF.19129.5E88EE4@localhost> In-Reply-To: <02dc01c29338$320168c0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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On 23 Nov 2002 at 22:35, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Freddie writes: > > Actually, they aren't. > Actually, they are. Two entirely different codebases, last time I looked at > the code. The similarity is in name alone. > > OE is nothing more than the mail engine for > > Outlook, and Outlook is nothing more than a > > PIM wrapper around OE. They are one and the > > same, just with different feature sets. > Unless both products have been rewritten from scratch in the past 36 months, > this is completely untrue. As of Outlook 2000, you cannot install it without first installing OE 5. And if you uninstall OE 5, then Outlook 2000 will not run. I haven't tried Outlook XP. I went through this whole rigamarole two weeks ago as I set up my helpdesk station. I hate OE with a passion, and Outlook only slightly less, but have to run Outlook for the helpdesk. I installed Office 97 with Outlook. OE 5 was installed along with it. I uninstalled OE 5. Outlook gave some weird errors that I ignored. I tried to install Office 2000 with Outlook. The installer installed OE 5 again. I uninstalled OE. Outlook wouldn't start. Upgraded to IE 6 with OE 6. Tried to uninstall OE 6 and the installer popped up saying that OE cannot be installed as Outlook 2000 depends on it. Try this on your system. I've fought with OE/Outlook and have come to the conclusion that OE is the mail engine in Outlook. There's no other explanation for it that I can think of. Cheers, Freddie fcash@bigfoot.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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