Outlook lock-in could vanish with new open source projects

[Lordbob75]

Outlook lock-in could vanish with new open source projects

Back in February, Microsoft released public specifications for PST files, the databases used by Outlook for storing and archiving e-mail. To these specifications, Microsoft has now added a pair of developer-oriented open source projects: the PST Data Structure View Tool for cracking open PSTs to browse inside them, and the PST File Format SDK, a cross-platform C++ library for working with PST files programmatically.

Source: Outlook lock-in could vanish with new open source projects

Woohoo!

~Lordbob

 

[surfasb]

When there is a comparable product to the Exchange/Outlook duo, THEN people will migrate. Currently, there is nothing that provides the power, flexibility and ease of Exchange/Outlook.

 

[Lordbob75]

When there is a comparable product to the Exchange/Outlook duo, THEN people will migrate. Currently, there is nothing that provides the power, flexibility and ease of Exchange/Outlook.

Thunderbird does a pretty good job actually.

~Lordbob

 

[z3r010]

Thunderbird does a pretty good job actually.

~Lordbob

With exchange?

 

[Lordbob75]

Thunderbird does a pretty good job actually.

~Lordbob

With exchange?

Oh I see. I actually don't know, but I would assume not.

In that case, no nothing can match it.

~Lordbob

 

[Dave76]

Will be interesting to see what comes from this release.

Might rev up the e-mail software available, hope we see improvements now that it will be easier for people to switch to another program.

How does this fit into the MS cloud plan?