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I think a lot of people who have only been exposed to web based email don't realize what they're missing in a good native client. I have several friends in that
by Encosia 14y ago
I think a lot of people who have only been exposed to web based email don't realize what they're missing in a good native client. I have several friends in that mid/late-20s age range that went to work in corporate jobs, used Outlook 2010 for the first time, and then asked me for help getting their personal Gmail/Yahoo/Hotmail accounts working with Outlook because they like doing email there so much more once they learn to use it well.
edit: BTW, I see your comment was downvoted while I was writing mine. I just wanted to say that I did not downvote yours; you make good points about Facebook and YouTube, to be sure.
- purplelobster 14y agoOutlooks is so much worse than gmail in almost every way. The only good thing about it for work is integration with all the other MS applications. My experience with Outlook after many years of gmail has been nothing but frustrating, and I hear the same story everywhere.
- Encosia 14y agoI'm genuinely curious what you mean by "almost every way". I use the Gmail web interface daily because its keyboard shortcuts for labeling, archiving, and deleting are unbeatable for triaging my inbox, but it pales in comparison to Outlook 2007, 2010, and 2013 for composing and scheduling (and I schedule against an Apps for Business account, not Exchange). In particular, pinning search folders like "Unread Mail" to the "favorites" area is invaluable to me because I filter a lot of my mail with "skip inbox" and "keep unread" so lower priority mail doesn't clutter my inbox or distract me with push alerts, but I want easy access to it later. I've tried using g + l "unread" in the Gmail web interface to replace that, many times, but the experience is just so much worse that I don't find it usable at all.