Maybe what I do simply doesn't call for or benefit from such a thing, but I never have seen the appeal of a monolithic email-contacts-calendar-todo-and-more mon

Maybe what I do simply doesn't call for or benefit from such a thing, but I never have seen the appeal of a monolithic email-contacts-calendar-todo-and-more monster application. It makes for a slow, resource intensive program and a lot of dead weight if you decide that you dislike any single component (say, the calendar) and use a single-purpose alternative instead. I've never found Oulook's mail management to be anything special, either, and that ribbon thing is abominable.