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Sit in my DeLorean, and let me take you for a ride.
It is the summer of 2005, and Zimbra Collaboration Suite was just released.
It promises to migrate your Microsoft Exchange-powered e-mail and calendar to more affordable server software while maintaining compatibility.
Microsoft Exchange is very important in business, and many companies default to it.
But sometimes expenses are optimized, and compromises are being made.
The key takeaway is that users are used to it.
They do not want an alternative, which places Microsoft in a cozy position.
There was no competition until now.
‘The New Outlook app is essentially the web version hosted on outlook.com.
It packs the web code into a desktop installable format and runs on the Edge WebView 2 engine.
The other one is the story above.
Let’s hope it gets this strategy right.
At least for now, it’s a good thing the new Outlook client is only an option.
