[Skooz]

bfl

[Oatka]

Anybody report their experiences with this? I had an option to use GMail but turned it down because it was Google’s.

[SirAllen]

I have and use both, but Outlook >>>>>> gmail. Outlook is a full fledged feature rich application, and I can’t imagine anything better than Outlook 2007. gmail has it’s place, but in no way is it a replacement or even comes close to besting Outlook.

I am glad these online apps are starting to provide offline access though, that has been my biggest beef with the whole online cloud app paradigm. I’m still struggling with the fact that my data files actually reside out in cyber space and not on my computer though. I don’t think I’ll ever get over that, guess I’m too old school.

[siamesecats]

Outlook 2007 has numerous features.

I would not trust Google for anything!

[Poser]

Agent is the best email and newsreader on the market.

[romanesq]

I use a gmail account but I don’t see how to easily group or find email from a certain person.

And I know there are other features others must want.

But what’s Outlook? :)

(I use Apple Mail and Entourage too.)

[Quix]

BTW,

I think EUDORA

is the best email program

They now have an Open Source version in Beta.

http://www.Eudora.com

[ThomasThomas]

You can use Outlook offline all it takes a click on a icon to go offline. But this is slate

[SmokingJoe]

Trust my confidential email to the Comrade Obama KGB communist vermin at Google?
Thanks, but no thanks!
If you are conservative, you have no business supporting Google in any way.

[DannyTN]

I assume when someone writes me using a gmail account that it’s spam.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

I’ll stick with Yahoo mail. Yahoo is the Cadillac of email services.

[FrankR]

I tried gmail for a temporary project...and I think it sucks. Even when having Outlook download it, it sucks.

Outlook works well for me, it has the features I like and use often; I use Outlook Express at home and I like it as well.

I know - different strokes for different folks - but if Outlook and other apps work well, and I am trained in using them, I'm not going to let "bill gates envy" stop me from using them or dissing MS.

[fso301]

Those who complain about Outlook don’t use/need the features it provides. Anyone in a small business needing computers connected to the internet is nuts if they aren’t sophisticated Outlook users.

[engrpat]

I have a gmail account that I use as a throw away account for when I purchase something online. I find it to be a very cheap, lacking in bells and whistles that I enjoy on Incredimail.

[Kolb]

I suppose Manjoo has never experienced Outlook connected to Exchange nor used the Outlook Web Access feature of Exchange. Blows all other email programs/ services out of the water, at least for large organization & corporate email.

DoD uses Outlook/ Exchange- I wonder why? /s

[eclecticEel]

I use Outlook at work, and I hate it.

Why does it have 1000 different features that I will never, ever in a million years think of using?
Why won’t it let me customize my button bar? I really don’t want “Business Contact Manager” on there at all; why it insists that I do is beyond me.
Why does it inexplicably go offline, sometimes for hours at a time? I don’t even realize it’s off, unless I check on it periodically to make sure it’s still working, restarting the entire computer being the only surefire way to get it to come back online.

[shorty_harris]

I tried Gmail once, but didn’t like it. I use Yahoo and Thunderbird. I’ve never used Outlook. The ads with Yahoo annoy me, but using Firefox with AdBlock (along with it’s selective element blocking), I’ve figured out how to block all the ads.

[balls]

Google has archived every single query ever made, for “research” purposes. Don’t be surprised if they keep all your email forever, for “research”.

[LibWhacker]

So I'm asking myself would I give a bunch of vicious liberal retards complete access to and control over decades worth of my email archives? No, I don't think so.

I wouldn't give them to my good buddy Opelosi and I won't give them to Google, which might be two very similar things.

[ElayneJ]

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