Mercury News | 10/20/2002 | Dan Gillmor: Software idea may be just crazy enough to work The planned features alone would make the project noteworthy. If the desktop software world needs anything, it's more innovation in the once-competitive area of personal information management, now overwhelmingly dominated by Microsoft's inelegant but overwhelmingly dominant Outlook, part of Microsoft Office. No sane venture capitalist would fund a company in the financial vacuum created by the Microsoft monopoly, Kapor says.