The end of the world (or at least corporate email) as we know it

Ahem. IBM is going to spend $300M in an ad campaign to convert customers to Lotus Notes and Domino, taking them away from Microsoft Exchange Server, and Outlook.

Don't look now, but Lotus Notes sucks, big time. I know from longtime personal experience, and I'm not the only one, either. But this is just the kind of Big Blue FUD we've come to expect. Vice Presidents don't use email nearly as much as the rest of us. They're easy to convince that IBM will take care of them, when Notes really is a steaming pile of shiat. Let's replace the VP's Outlook with Notes and see if he can schedule a meeting, or even refresh his freakin' email window.

I have to laugh. There's no comparison. Lotus Notes truly, truly sucks. The newer versions even change behavior so that you have to relearn everything all over again. You can trash Microsoft if you want, but IBM is really the evil empire. And when they take over you will regret it, and long for the days of yore when you had all that easy Microsoft usability.