Quite frankly, we of the Lotus Notes religion are fed up with the great uneducated having a pop at the product. Okay, in past versions there should have been a bit more time spent on the user interface and usability (as opposed to unimportant things like security, business applications, mobile working, backwards compatibility, ease-of-management… all that stuff no-one cares about). The answer to those who bad-mouth Notes is “take a look at Notes 8, and don’t make any more comments until you have”. I know of some people in the media who should take note of that.

Then there’s Microsoft Outlook… everyone loves it, everyone uses it at home (so I’ve been told, although the evidence is strangely elusive when I ask for proof). Outlook is gorgeous and easy to use. It’s slick and secure. Okay, I was taking the piss on that last point. So, given Outlook’s obvious greatness, why would Stan James publish a blog entry covering ‘67 reasons that Outlook sucks‘? I’m sure he’s doing something wrong. 67 things wrong to be precise.

#14 is my favourite, and #22 reminded of a recent blog entry here on dadams.co.uk which in turn talked about Outlook’s “ultimate inbox“. And I’ll trot out my fairly witless comment once again… copying all your sent e-mail into your inbox? I’d call that the “ultimate nightmare”.

Thanks to Ed Brill for passing on this info. Okay, final point, there may be a few things in here which Notes is guilty of too. Stan talks about Outlook taking up 162 mb of RAM. Notes 8 can swallow up a bit more than that… but then Notes 8 does a hell of a lot more than Outlook does. Just enjoy the list.