The several hundred thousand seat corporations? Yes. The multi-national
corporations? Yes. Individual users? Probably not.

The outcry for news groups in Outlook is coming from the consumer sector,
not Microsoft's target with Outlook. It is the large Exchange customers who
do not want news groups in Outlook to keep their employees from surfing
alt.sex.gerbil on company time. For those corporations who do want news
groups, they can gateway them in through Exchange. For home users, OE is
the natural method for getting newsgroup reading.

This has been asked with each iteration of Outlook and the answer has always
been the same. There are third party programs to augment what Microsoft has
programmed - use any of the free or low cost shareware programs. Just don't
expect Microsoft to make it easy for employees to waste their employer's
time and money.


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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, exciter asked:

|| There have never been any plans to add news reading to Outlook.
|
| Why not?
| I personalley hear and read many people who wonder why there exists
| outlook express anyway
| if there is outlook.
| It is completely logical to gather the two programs together.
| This is exactly what is expected from customers I tihink.
| So I dont agree or believe your remark.
|
|
|| There is just no need for it, and Outlook's main customer base does
|| not want it.
|
| How do we know this?
| Did microsoft made a survey and asked thusands of users if they dont
| want it?
| What is this argument is based on?
|
|
| Moreover, why outlook 2007 has a RSS reader then? RSS actually had
| nothing to do
| with the mission of outlook. But as you see, as trends change, things
| change and RSS
| support is in outlook 2007.
| It is completely logical to expect Outlook to support newsgroups
| given the fact that
| it will support RSS, which has not been in strong demand few years
| ago.
|
| And! In addition, there are tools which allow people to read news
| messages in outlook.
| This is a clear indication that there has been a demand in that
| direction.