Sunday, January 03, 2010

Micro$oft Outlook Replaces Thunderbird

December 29, 2009 I posted on my Facebook wall:

This web page is what I need to finally get rid of Mozilla Thunderbird for a personal email client and go to Micro$oft Outlook. Not what I wanted to do, but the latest Thunderbird continues the trend of decreased stability and lack of any decent Calendar. Actually, the Calendar, which I have begged Mozilla to update is my primary reason for dumping Thunderbird. Stubbornness was the only reason I kept using TB. I am not a big fan of M$, which goes all the way back to 1976 and Bill Gates "Open Letter to Hobbyists", however M$ Outlook is a mature product which has a very good Calendar. Since I have had Outlook on my computer for years to support work why not use it as my personal client too, if I can separate work and personal email using multiple profiles.
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December 29, 2009 at 5:39am


Well yesterday I finally got around to changing from Mozilla Thunderbird to Micro$oft Outlook. As a final attempt to live within the environment provided by Mozilla's Thunderbird, I tried using Kalendra. Kalendra seemed like a really good calendar-centered application, but that's not what I wanted. I wanted an integrated email and calendar application.

The initial transition of setting up Outlook with a new profile and my two personal email accounts went smooth. Haven't tried to move either my old mail or address book from Thunderbird to Outlook, so I haven't faced those problems yet.

This morning I noticed an email from slashdot.org containing the stories was not complete, but I've seen that before. Since I'm already dealing with another issue with slashdot.org emails not being delivered I guess I'll just ignore this problem.

So for now at least, I'm willing to live with the situation.