I spent a year using Outlook and have now come back to Notes7.

So what happens?  They Botched my username, I requested a name change and they complied, but it partially failed. Some Encrypted documents now blow the client up, I find I am not an owner of my mailbox after the name change.  Wonderful.  It took me a full half hour to work out what and where to put it back as the nice "Changes" in N6 and up block you from doing this if you are not already the mailbox ownwer.

Just an indication of how far away I have stepped from the old Notes/Domino scene.

Then I find they have attempt to lock the client down with profiles.  Not in my lifetime!  "Welcome back" is the whisper in the back of my mind as I fix the mailfile myself, unlock the client, add designer and administrator and deliver my own templates.

Oh did I fail to mention that they have locked down my laptop with domain control and disk encryption so I can't unlock it and can't install anything like a refresh Notes client?

Then I set up a discussion database for my own document store to get the zillion attachments out of my mailfile and create a local to local replication agent in the bookmarks database (about the best use for that heap of junk).

Every time I see the message "Your client settings have been updated", I shut down and trash the changes just made by the central server.  This is pathetic and irritating to put it mildly.  OK I hear the rousing chorus of cries "but your'e not supposed to do that you're supposed to work within the paramaters they set you".  Well maybe, but then they aren't paying me to waste my time on their locked down "do nothing" setup, they're paying me to deliver a project.

Help is at hand though, the whole company >100k users is going Outlook and Sharepoint.

Then in a discussion with a previous customer, for whom we had done a spectacularly successful ND6 updgrade, I hear that they are going Outlook and Sharepoint.

"Welcome back" goes the whisper in the back of my mind; "Not for long" goes the whisper in the front of my mind.