i'm still clinging to outlook for the calendar integration

i'm definitely going to wait til at least a few decent versions of lightning come out before i switch over.

i just saw these screenshots: http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=599&slide=1
thinking about trying it out if i get the time.

3/23/2006 7:14:36 PM

i dont see how those look better than outlook

3/23/2006 7:16:06 PM

nice

3/23/2006 7:16:53 PM

i use lotus notes for my email

3/23/2006 7:21:08 PM

they're not but i'm damn sick of this pst format for shit

i can't even use services i want to use because they have to have a sync app written for outlook. iCal syncing is everywhere now though.

on top of that, i can see someone writing the smart input box extension for this calendar relatively quicker than the next version of outlook coming out.

also there are a bunch of productivity apps for outlook that you have to pay for - they make e-mail handling a little quicker by giving you options of delegating, scheduling, etc. - and i can see those as extensions for thunderbird too, whereas they will never be built in to outlook and i don't really feel like paying for it. i'd rather just spend the extra time.

3/23/2006 7:22:05 PM

You should setup a domino server and then you can customize your notes mail database to do all kinds of cool stuff and...




oh fuck i just can't keep that up.

stay the fuck away from notes.

3/23/2006 7:25:26 PM

lmao

3/23/2006 7:28:13 PM

Quote :

"they will never be built in to outlook "

what do you mean by delegating and scheduling, you can assign tasks with outlook

or are you talking more stuff like what microsoft project does?

3/23/2006 7:57:23 PM

^ just one example is speedfiler: http://www.claritude.com/

oh yeah and the other reason i haven't switched is because i want a better way to search my mail. right now, google desktop sucks for indexing mail that is archived in outlook - i have so many broken links in my index. so i have to use LookOut from microsoft. if thunderbird has a good search, then i'm gone.

3/24/2006 8:26:02 AM

notes is the most evil program in existance.

3/24/2006 8:29:59 AM

yep, office delayed til 2007: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/24/0623233&from=rss

the mozilla team better take advantage of this

3/24/2006 9:55:02 AM

i use ms outlook instead of lotus notes

for everything except browsing the databases, it works 10x better

3/25/2006 12:14:10 AM