Still no newsreader in Outlook

[Ian Semmel]

I haven't installed Outlook since Office 2000.

One reason I don't use it is because there is no integrated newsreader,

I just installed Office 2007 beta and apparently still no newsreader. Why not ?
I don't want to use Outlook Express as well as Outlook.

If Thunderbird and just about every other email program in the world can do it,
why not Outlook ?

 

[Gordon]

I haven't installed Outlook since Office 2000.

One reason I don't use it is because there is no integrated newsreader,

I just installed Office 2007 beta and apparently still no newsreader. Why
not ? I don't want to use Outlook Express as well as Outlook.

If Thunderbird and just about every other email program in the world can
do it, why not Outlook ?

because the main target market of Outlook (and indeed where the vast
majority of installations have occurred) is the corporate sector where
users are not expected to spend their time reading newsgroups.......
That's why.

 

[DL]

Perhaps because OL was designed for the business environment were a
newsreader may not be permitted.
Since OE is installed on your win sys anyway, create a shortcut that opens
the OE newsreader directly

 

[Brian Tillman]

I haven't installed Outlook since Office 2000.

One reason I don't use it is because there is no integrated
newsreader,

I just installed Office 2007 beta and apparently still no newsreader.
Why not ? I don't want to use Outlook Express as well as Outlook.

You can allways buy an NNTP add-in.

If Thunderbird and just about every other email program in the world
can do it, why not Outlook ?

Because Outlook isn't just a mail program, for one thing.

 

[Patrick Schmid]

You can allways buy an NNTP add-in.
I use NewsHound from ShoreLine Software to get these newsgroups into
Outlook.

Patrick Schmid

 

[Ian Semmel]

Ian Semmel wrote:




because the main target market of Outlook (and indeed where the vast
majority of installations have occurred) is the corporate sector where
users are not expected to spend their time reading newsgroups.......
That's why.

And they can spend all their time browsing RSS feeds ?

 

[Gordon]

And they can spend all their time browsing RSS feeds ?

An RSS feed is slightly different - you can't reply to it!
Plus restrictions can be placed on RSS feeds with group policies.

 

[Maxim Emelin]

I do not know why Microsoft doesn't include newsreader into the Microsoft
Outlook, but you can install "MAPILab NNTP for Outlook" add-in, which will
add such functionality into Microsoft Outlook. Test this add-in:
http://www.mapilab.com/outlook/nntp/.