We got wingnut Ed Morrissey trying to explain it out, in typical wingnut fashion:
Outlook isn’t exactly “archaic”. Many organizations use Outlook to handle e-mail, scheduling, and other tasks. It’s not my favorite program, but it works, especially for large organizations. Or at least large organizations that know what they’re doing.
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The article Morrissey is referring to says it’s an Outlook server that is causing the problems. Well there actually isn’t “Outlook servers”. Most likely they are running off of an Exchange server, which are still nightmares to manage and keep running.
But this whole part:
Outlook isn’t exactly “archaic”.
really got me going. So if they were running say Outlook 8 bundled with Exchange Server 5.5, that wouldn’t be archaic? I guess Ed never heard of versioning, because that example right there would be nearly 12 years old. That’s many lifetimes over in the world of computers and internet applications. Think of someone telling you their are up to date technology wise because they run Windows, then when you look at their computer they are still running Windows 3.1. Or how about “hey I’m a big gamer. I got a Nintendo!”. You might think they mean a WII or DS, but instead you find they have an original Nintendo from the 80’s!
But I guess if this is the most the wingnuts have to bitch about then the country will be doing awesome for the next eight years.