For users to access an Outlook account, they will have to acquire a home connection to the company server. This may not be a big problem, but will require more phone-lines and modems for home user access. E-mail is very important for business communications. Employees are asked to keep in touch with clients more today, than in the past. E-mail offers companies an alternative to calling clients and possibly running a high phone bill.
Employees are also able to communicate the same message to multiple people in one swoop.
From a university perspective, e-mail offers professors a greater opportunity to communicate possible assignment changes, answer homework related questions after hours, and relay special events. Outlook provides users with tools to organize e-mails by user, importance, or whatever the user specifies. For college students, this means the jokes your uncle sends do not need to be in the same folder as your latest Infrastructure announcement. Outlook 2000 offers users the opportunity to combine different applications into e-mail without many complications. Internet e-mail services are useful in some instances, but are not as diverse as applications such as Outlook 2000.