Quote Originally Posted by mendhak
True that. Due to the association with Windows, it seems most "natural" that you use MS products. Besides that, it integrates well with our sharepoint portal and a couple other MS applications.

In other words, complete office solutions. A rival would have to match that and more in today's market.
The real problem is that OUTLOOK has no need to get any better - any real improvements - in order for more customers to purchase it. That's the problem with monopoly - single vendors do not produce best-products.

If you ever used some of the neat features of LOTUS - group IN and OUT box items together in one view. "True" shared documents - ability for multiple users to collaborate and add to existing documents (and I'm not talking detached doc's in some folder - these are right in LOTUS). Ability to define and change "tokens" and "hot spots" in the document that then manifest out to the "outline" view, so doc's can be sorted and filtered by those "tokens".

OUTLOOK's little TASKS and CALENDAR/APPT features are primitive compared to what NOTES could do.