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Comment on Outlook 2010 and Thunderbird by GSystems

GSystems — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 03:04:43 +0000

Five months later, and Outlook has taken a complete dive. The mishandling of idle IMAP accounts was the dealbreaker. In the time since, I’ve found solutions to all of the ailments of Thunderbird, and am left with only Google Tasks as the “missing” feature. In the end, putting “Tasks” in my calendar (via Android and Thunderbird’s GC attachment) has only ensured that I complete the things I want to do in a timely fashion.

Thunderbird, truly, for the win.

The only Exchange business I’ll need will be for work in the enterprise. As of late, I am not in an enterprise, so this factor has much less value to me. In addition, if push comes to shove, the web interface should suffice for Exchange email if it is deemed necessary in the future… This web interface can easily be added to Thunderbird via the X-Notifier extension, I believe, so yeah…

Thunderbird wins…

Comment on Outlook 2010 and Thunderbird by GSystems

GSystems — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 21:48:46 +0000

Wonderfully funny, but accurate review of the two. Am presently running my own tests, and for sure, Outlook isn’t plug and play (for the important parts) as Thunderbird. Even finding server information is faster and more complete on Thunderbird.

Moving data files is less complicated than Thunderbird, but that’s about where the buck stops on Outlook as far as “less complicated.”

However, once you work with it for a while, you realize that Outlook is a more complete email program. It’s not surprising (since MS’ bread and butter is the enterprise), but it’s still reality. Having to do everything manually seems a chore, but it’s not, since it gives you more control over the behavior of your email program.

Not automatically checking idle IMAP accounts is almost sinister on MS’ part, but properly setting up send/receive and defaulting to your main IMAP upon booting resolves that (for the most part)… They’re all work-arounds… whether or not they’ll satisfy the beast will be told by time.

Thus far, I’m going with Outlook for presentation and user-level customization…although I haven’t uninstalled Thunderbird yet.

Comment on Outlook 2010 and Thunderbird by Rob Jones

Rob Jones — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:08:41 +0000

To be quite fair I have both and prefer to use Thunderbird after getting to Know it.My biggest thing is the recent interaction with Google calender (and outlook) which lets me set calenders across people and hardware.This is especially helpful for Android calender.Regarding the issue of setup.Very easily with the latest version with plenty of apps including secure incryption for mails.There is also exchange coming you way too!

Not quite as polished as the graphics on MS but you can always write your own.

The gap is very small between them.If you are a power user MS restrictions on licensing are the deciding factor for me.Development and some support should continue indefinitely with some backward compatibility.Security could be less important with IMAP.

Comment on Outlook 2010 and Thunderbird by David Sommerseth

David Sommerseth — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:41:52 +0000

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Comment on Linux for Consumers by Keith Fyans

Keith Fyans — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:09:46 +0000

Totally true. From personal experience trying to claim that even Ubuntu or Mint work out the box is fallacious. The amount of time and effort it took me to get the wireless card working on my netbook with Ubuntu was ridiculous; I’m passing it on to a friend soon and I’ll deffo be switching back to Win7 before I do; the person in question likes ubuntu but “[dosn't] want to bother with the constant upkeep it requires.”

Comment on Linux for Consumers by Jared Earle

Jared Earle — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 07:52:09 +0000

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Comment on Spadge’s Adventures in Userland: Linux on the desktop revisited by chaslinux

chaslinux — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 18:25:40 +0000

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Comment on Spadge’s Adventures in Userland: Linux on the desktop revisited by Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 07 May 2011 04:37:15 +0000

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Comment on Spadge’s Adventures in Userland: Linux on the desktop revisited by Marcus Webb

Marcus Webb — Mon, 02 May 2011 18:46:47 +0000

mmmmm, still sticking with Sabayon myself. It seems stable. Not that I have anything specific against Ubuntu (even Kubuntu although I never liked KDE THAT much), but I do want to give KDE a proper go now that it’s 4.somethingstable. I tried gentoo, but the compilation process seems to be horrendous (probably because I am trying to get an Acer Netbook to do the donkey work, and we all know you have to know your hardware and match it up in the make file before undertaking a serious compile.

I have yet to understand why you can’t just export the settings from a working kernel that manages to boot your system and simply use those to recompile a kernel in a chrooted environment but I suspect Google is probably my friend when it comes to situations like this…

Keep up the informed posts, Spadge, it’s a tonic for the troops!

Comment on Adobe should release a Flash Player for iPhone OS by Solved: how to show if Apple or Adobe is right about Flash on the iPhone

Solved: how to show if Apple or Adobe is right about Flash on the iPhone — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:28:41 +0000

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