Well after many, many years of using exclusively Microsoft applications for office and email; I’ve finally started making the break-away.
I’ve used MS Outlook as my email client for years and it has been an excellent product. It had some great features, but became cumbersome and extremely difficult to migrate to a new pc system when that became necessary. There was no intuitive, automated way to backup and restore the outlook installation when that became necesssary. Outlook over time also became a significant resource hog and began to contribute to the erosion of overall system performance.
I began to look for alternatives and finally settled on Mozilla Thunderbird. After three months of exclusive use, I have found Thunderbird to be reliable, fast and with virtually all of the functions of MS Outlook. It’s not quite as professional looking and polished as Outlook, but with a number of third-party addons, can look pretty good. It’s clean, lean, easy to backup and restore —- I like it!
Now, I’m asking myself the question: “Why didn’t you just transition all your email to GMail”? GMail is the excellent browser-based email application from Google. I’ve used it for years, as a supplemen
t to my PC based email client. I still use Gmail and really like that it’s an anywhere, anytime email capability and only a web browser is required. I’m still struggling a bit with some of the functionality that I’ve grown accustomed to in Outlook and Thunderbird that is lacking in Gmail. One example is Folders — Outlook and Thunderbird have them, and GMail doesn’t. I really like to organize my email into folders, or categories like: Family, Friends, Finance …… etc.
I’ll keep playing with GMail functionality and suspect that one day Gmail, or some other Browser-based email application will be the only one I use exclusively
Office applications are next — hello Open Office!
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