Thread: Virgin Media dont support Outlook
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Old 29-08-2009, 18:56   #106
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Re: Virgin Media dont support Outlook
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Originally Posted by foreverwar View Post
Where should VM draw the line - should they provide support for Flash, MS Office, COD:WAW, Avast Anti-virus, GameSpy?

All of the above are third party software, and if VM are expected to provide support for all major 3rd Party software products, they will have to hire hundreds, if not thousands of extra support staff, which will in turn increase our bills - all for someone else's software they do not get any revenue from.

Where's the sense in that?
That's just it. They add support for Outlook. Where do they end? Pegasus? Eudora? Thunderbird? The Bat? Opera Mail? Or, any one of the 100s of other mail clients available on Windows? What about the Mac? What about Linux? FreeBSD? any Unix or Unix clone? What about phones/PDAs? The iPhone, any Android handset? Windows Mobile? Symbian (Series 40, 60, 90 or UIQ)? I don't know how many email clients there are, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were 1000s of email clients available on all those platforms I listed.

Unfortunately, while it would be nice for Virgin (or any ISP) to support every available email client, but as you note, it is not practical.
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