LookOUT 2007

[Gerard]

On Monday February 12, 2007 at 06:00:05 (PM) Rick Chadderdon wrote:

> And, to stay on topic, Outlook 2007 runs quite poorly on this box.  
> Well, for what I do.
> 
> My current IMAP archive of this list begins in August 2005.  The IMAP 
> archive for my primary address holds all of my mail since 1998.  That's 
> a lot of mail, in case you're wondering.  The SPAM folder alone contains 
> more than 114,000 messages (I keep them for sentimental reasons... :) ), 
> and there are probably 150 folders of sorted (and unsorted) mail.  I 
> added only those 2 accounts to Outlook for testing purposes, and 
> synchronized them via a LAN connection.  Outlook feels a *lot* slower 
> than Thunderbird with those same (and seven other) accounts active and 
> synchronized (on the same machine).  Actually, Thunderbird on my office 
> machine, running Gentoo Linux with far less power (2.4G P4, 1.5G RAM, 
> decent SATA hard drives) feels faster than Outlook 2007 does on the more 
> powerful machine, again with the same accounts and more.
> 
> I recognize that Outlook 2007 is more than just an email client, but 
> *as* an email client, it stinks.  And, in my opinion, one would be 
> better suited to run (gasp) separate apps for each of the things Outlook 
> does rather than use that bloated, slow application and compromise on 
> *everything* it does.

That is quite a large number of messages indeed. I agree, I use Becky
Internet Mail on my Win boxes and KMail on the FreeBSD ones. I have
never had any real problem with OutLook. I just don't need all it offers.

However, MS Office is another story. It is still the finest single
office product that I have used, and I have tried dozens of them. It
appears to work fine under Vista, although I have not given it a through
workout yet. Heck, I haven't even purchased my new unit yet. I want to
wait until after 4/15 to do that.

-- 
Gerard

The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing the world he
didn't exist.