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I think Outlook itself is a big reason for why other email clients seem so behind. As a user, Outlook is great and I have absolutely no complaints about it. As
by s1k3s 6y ago
I think Outlook itself is a big reason for why other email clients seem so behind. As a user, Outlook is great and I have absolutely no complaints about it. As a developer that occasionally has to work with the technical side of emails, Outlook is the biggest source of frustration due to its “proprietary” standard of content presentation, address book management, contacts etc. I have to write plenty of code specifically for emails to work with Outlook because they do not follow any open standard and they’ve created their own. And we can’t stay away from it because it’s definitelly the most used client in our field.
Seems like Microsoft is leveraging their position in the same way Google does with browsers and Apple does with hardware.
- ubermonkey 6y agoYeah, this. I'm on a Mac, and really prefer the native Mac mail client. It's fast, polished, and has insanely great search tools. But I keep Outlook running, too, because to properly and reliably deal with Exchange calendaring (esp with respect to coordinated online meeting setup), it's really the only good option. Which means I have two copies of my work email corpus on my machine. And it's not small.
- orf 6y agoIt’s great, but also super frustrating. Like how it will suddenly pop into focus every few hours (possibly showing your personal emails while screen sharing) or how message content sometimes just doesn’t display.
- ubermonkey 6y agoWhat app are you saying does these tings? I experience neither issue on my Mac with Mail.app or Outlook, so I suspect local issues for you.
- alpaca128 6y agoI don't know. My dad is an "average" user running Outlook as client, and he's currently complaining all the time because for some reason at least every second Windows 10 update wrecks the performance of Outlook so hard it sometimes takes minutes to start and upwards of 10 seconds to open an email. Not to mention the occasional crash. I'm glad Claws mail exists; an ancient client but the only graphical one I could find that's actually fast and lightweight. Although Mailspring is pretty good as well and is not quite as slow as one might expect from an Electron app. In the end I am really glad I have no need of more "enterprise" features in this area.
- Moru 6y agoIt's not that Microsoft is following in Googles footsteps, it's the other way around. Microsoft just gets to feel the other side of the stick for a change. Googles time will come too one day.