Office needs newsreading facilities.

[bugrit]

Newsgroups are a classic internet facility but they are ignored completely by
Office. Outlook Express's newsreading capabilities are flawed and so M$ don't
provide any useable newsgroup access at all.

I suppose it must be an area of the internet that is so well established
that M$ would have difficulty creating new protocols so that they can lock
out competing products. Since they can't own it, they disown it?

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[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

If you don't like the abiiities of Outlook Express, you are free to use any
one of many alternatives. There are numerous alternatives, so, see,
competition IS good.

News groups will not be a part of Outlook except through third party
applications. Reason? Corporations are the primary consumer of Outlook
with Exchange server and, guess what, they don't want their employees
surfing alt.binaries.sex.gerbils on company time.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, bugrit asked:

| Newsgroups are a classic internet facility but they are ignored
| completely by Office. Outlook Express's newsreading capabilities are
| flawed and so M$ don't provide any useable newsgroup access at all.
|
| I suppose it must be an area of the internet that is so well
| established that M$ would have difficulty creating new protocols so
| that they can lock out competing products. Since they can't own it,
| they disown it?
|
| ----------------
| This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
| suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click
| the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the
| button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft
| Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane.
|
|
http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...-7d8e06c89753&dg=microsoft.public.office.misc