Posted on 09/23/2018 1:10:16 PM PDT by fishtank
Outlook is very intuitive. Of course I have a Surface and Windows 10 phone, so I like the ease of use.
You too!
Prov 26:4
+1 for @outlook.com.
Google is evil, avoid their products when possible.
I use my ISP email that downloads into an outlook 2003 program. Slick.
Been doing this since 1994.
Correct, if the product is free then you are the product.
If you want Email privacy you will have to pay an email service for an account. ~ $60/year.
Its worth it unless you don’t mind Google/Yahoo data mining your private information.
actually Outlook has a residence on computer program
and it it has a cloud based Outlook as well.
lycos.com has advertisement-free email accounts for $20 per year.
Outlook the program can even be your mail client for your Outlook.com mail.
I’m still using Outlook Desktop 2013. Pretty much any SSL email provider works well with it. I have accounts with Comcast, 1and1, Gmail and my previous employer, all running at the same time without issues.
They both suck. But they suck in different ways. Pick your poison.
I won’t say you are wrong, just that you are out of date.
https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/free-email-accounts
(Ever hear of Hotmail? Now known as Outlook mail)
“I had to switch from Outlook to Gmail in a corporate environment. I hate it.”
Same situation. I felt like I had just dropped back into 1991. Gmail is sooooo much less productive in a work environment.
I like Outlook pretty well.
Microsoft doesn’t data mine your emails. Google does.
I have a personal Gmail account and use Outlook for email at work. I’m pretty sure that Outlook has greater functionality.
I have used Outlook for years to keep track of my email. I am on the old Outlook 2007, which is all local, no cloud support, so I am not familiar with those versions. Outlook 2007, 2010 etc is not an email service by itself, but it can retrieve email into its own database where you can sort it and save it without needing to worry about how many bytes you are using. It is local to your hard drive once it gets into the outlook database. You can even have outlook delete the emails from the account on the website after it stores them locally. It also has a calendar that keeps track of appointments and a contacts database. Pretty powerful, really. Thunderbird is a nice alternative that my son uses, but I have been using Outlook for a long time and don’t currently have a reason to change. I am told that Thunderbird is a little easier when it comes to setting up email accounts. Outlook 2007 can be a pain in that regard, admittedly.
I have several email accounts. Two through spectrum that is my internet provider, two with yahoo and one with gmail. With the push of the F9 key, I can get all of their separate inboxes updated in the Outlook database, so I never have to log into each site to get mail.
One gotcha I have noticed, is that Outlook 2007 can be a little picky if you are traveling and use wifi connections at hotels to retrieve and send email. I can almost always retrieve, but the settings to get it to send from some hotels can require some research. You won’t find out about it, of course, until you are on the road, so it can be aggravating. I have dealt with it long enough, now, that I have worked the bugs out for myself. Perhaps the newer versions are not so troublesome.
Thanks for the information. I wouldn’t use any of it.
I don’t know about Outlook, but Thunderbird gives you the option of downloading a copy to your computer and either removing or leaving the copy on the server.
1. Get out of Gmail.
2. Why use Outlook. Use Mozilla’s Thunderbird instead and set it up as a POP/POP3 account, which can bring all your Email into your PC, deleting it from the servers of your ISP at the same time, and it avoids you sitting on someone’s website to do Email. (Your ISP has a free Email account for you I am sure)
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