I recently switched to using Mozilla Thunderbird, and it was for the better. Well my reason was that my system would become insanely sluggish if i had Outlook, Eclipse, Firefox and Media Player going.And this is the minimal set of things i need running when i work. Yes i know that maybe ...just maybe using IE and not Firefox would save me some CPU cycles but the fact remains that IE is inferior to Firefox. There, i said it. And maybe i could find cheaper alternatives to Windows media player. But anyway, i chose to ditch MS Outlook for Thunderbird.
What i liked in comparison is this:
1> I can subscribe to the RSS Feeds of the Blogs and other sites i haunt, from within Thunderbird itself.
2>When i put all my recipients in BCC and send out a mail, and i need to revert to my Sent Items to see if i remembered Sanaya, or Karan, or Jomy, i can do that. Very irritatingly, Outlook does not show you the people you put in BCC!
Now maybe, there are ways and workarounds to achieve the above two things in Outlook too, but i did not have the patience to try.
And yes, my speed problem was resolved to a mighty extent, especially since i installed Thunderbird on a separate partition from my Windows.
So anyway people, drift, oh please, drift from Microsoft Products.
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What i liked in comparison is this:
1> I can subscribe to the RSS Feeds of the Blogs and other sites i haunt, from within Thunderbird itself.
2>When i put all my recipients in BCC and send out a mail, and i need to revert to my Sent Items to see if i remembered Sanaya, or Karan, or Jomy, i can do that. Very irritatingly, Outlook does not show you the people you put in BCC!
Now maybe, there are ways and workarounds to achieve the above two things in Outlook too, but i did not have the patience to try.
And yes, my speed problem was resolved to a mighty extent, especially since i installed Thunderbird on a separate partition from my Windows.
So anyway people, drift, oh please, drift from Microsoft Products.
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