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Good point. How can you argue that Outlook + Exchange is a better alternative to the competition when you don't know what the competition is.

Unfortunately that seemed to be part of the culture -- don't even bother learning about / using competitors products because you "know" yours is better. Many MS programmers have only ever played on the MS stack.

I think he probably did but didn't want to talk about it.

Bingo, you got it Stanley. I tried it several years ago to see what all the buzz was about. It wasn't until I got flooded with over 600 emails in two days that I could see how effective Gmail was at threading, organizing, and search.

At MSFT it is risky to openly use an iPhone. That and the fact the reception is terrible in my area really made it impossible to go with an iPhone. With Android available on Verizon it is a very viable option for me.

Don

Yea, remember when Ballmer personally almost smashed one?

Also Google docs is years away from catching up with Office, particularly excel.

What do you think got him 'downsized'?