MS Outlook alternative?

[Dickieboy]

Can anyone recommend an alternative to MS Outlook please, it is not for my use but for a mate with a photography business who is fed up with Micro Soft and who has now gone over to Open Office which doesn't appear to have an equivalent, either that or I'm too thick to see it.

 

[Dansin]

Could try Mozilla Thunderbird. I want to use it - but it just won't import my pst file (which is admittedly 1.5Gb...).

 

[(RIP) Kaister]

how about opera browser ?

not MS and has an email client in it - essentially you get rid of one more prog.

 

[Dickieboy]

Could try Mozilla Thunderbird. I want to use it - but it just won't import my pst file (which is admittedly 1.5Gb...).

Have just checked that out and it could be a possibility.

how about opera browser ?

not MS and has an email client in it - essentially you get rid of one more prog.

MM I've just had a look at 'SeaMonkey' which I think is the Mozilla equivalent, will spend the next few minutes having a look at Opera which I think I've read somewhere is now a free download

 

[JohnnyOldBoy]

Lot of people looking for alternatives now

I have a copy of MS Office 2007 on my home PC which I thought was legitimate as it was given to me by my employer for homeworking. Recently I accepted an update which discovered my copy was NOT legitimate. Long since left the company so no joy there.

I am still using MS Office and Outlook and ignoring the message. I hope it continues to work until I can look at MS Office 2010 and decide if I want to use it or something else.

Looked at Window Mail which is the replacement for Outlook Express which seems to work well and is relatively advert free but I don't like the concept of putting my contact details on the Web. I put a lot of customer information in the contact notes.

A pal who works in IT and does not get involved in Microsoft bashing, PC vs MAC nonsense and IE vs Mozilla debates gave me the best advice.

'You use Outlook as a critical part of your business contact management, don't dick about, buy a legitimate copy of Outlook, it works, it will always work and with millions of customers Microsoft are not going to mess up'.

 

[Steve]

Thunderbird, as previously mentioned.

 

[Dickieboy]

I have a copy of MS Office 2007 on my home PC which I thought was legitimate as it was given to me by my employer for homeworking. Recently I accepted an update which discovered my copy was NOT legitimate. Long since left the company so no joy there.

I am still using MS Office and Outlook and ignoring the message. I hope it continues to work until I can look at MS Office 2010 and decide if I want to use it or something else.

Looked at Window Mail which is the replacement for Outlook Express which seems to work well and is relatively advert free but I don't like the concept of putting my contact details on the Web. I put a lot of customer information in the contact notes.

A pal who works in IT and does not get involved in Microsoft bashing, PC vs MAC nonsense and IE vs Mozilla debates gave me the best advice.

'You use Outlook as a critical part of your business contact management, don't dick about, buy a legitimate copy of Outlook, it works, it will always work and with millions of customers Microsoft are not going to mess up'.

You have downloaded MS Update KB949810 which was released 25/08/09
and installed on your PC on or sometime after. It isn't a security update it's Microsoft Spyware plenty of work arounds just google it.

Though you could just restore your system to a date prior to the time it was downloaded and then configure MS/Windows Updates so that you only install the updates that YOU consider relevant and not what Microsoft would like you to download

 

[robroy]

How about not installing an email app at all and going "into the cloud".

I've been using Google Mail (with my own domain address) for years now and it's fantastic - I can access it anywhere.

Rob

 

[JohnnyOldBoy]

You have downloaded MS Update KB949810 which was released 25/08/09
and installed on your PC on or sometime after. It isn't a security update it's Microsoft Spyware plenty of work arounds just google it.

Though you could just restore your system to a date prior to the time it was downloaded and then configure MS/Windows Updates so that you only install the updates that YOU consider relevant and not what Microsoft would like you to download

Thanks, I will look into that and if it's simple will have a go. My main concern is that at some time in the future it will stop working and I did a quick Google search to find out. I didn't understand most of the responses.

 

[The Foolish Fellow]

CONTACTS

OUTLOOK IS THE ONLY ONE WITH A COMPREHENSIVE MANAGMENT OF CONTACTS AND THE ABILITY TO SYNC WITH YOUR PHONE.