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ZX Outlook
Author	polomint
Filename	zxoe.tap
Year	2008
Position	95
Format	ZX Spectrum 48K, ZX Spectrum 128K/+2
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Description	This version of Microsoft Outlook for the speccy is in some ways better than the original. For starters, it loads a damn sight quicker and has less problems. For example, it doesn't leave a permanent translucent blue rectangle in the bottom of my screen because I am receiveing a spam email every 7 seconds. It doesn't fill up with endless jobs and tasks that I must "urgently" attend to either. Finally, I don't think this one would a headache to install in a public computer laboratory with mandatory or roaming profiles. Right, that's settled, I'm moving over to this one on my work PC! But seriously, in this entry at least the effort was made to make some nice border UDGs around the simulated app whilst still retaining a general air of crapness. Now I just need to find the "out of office autoreply" option.
Comments	With marginally more functionality and a much greater stability than the real thing, this is really a lesson to Microsoft how things should be done and of course you don't need a gigabyte of RAM to do it either. The extra feature I really like though is the fact that you don't receive any emails in it from work or annoyances like that. Everyone should ditch the Microsoft version and use this one instead - you will be fitter, happier and more productive. I'm not sure when the next service pack for it is due out, perhaps CSSCGC 2010 at a guess! Clearly, you can use this if you want to kiss goodbye to spam problems as well. Watch out for the BSOD (Black screen of death) though on trying to launch the browser - followed by a swift reboot (so realistic!).