Archive for September 3rd, 2008
Outlook: Finally Gone
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 at 1:18 pm
In a previous post way too long ago I lamented about there being no viable alternative to Outlook. As a result, Traci and I were stuck using Outlook 2000 to keep and sync our calendars. I attempted to use Horde for a while but without a viable method of syncing our PDAs it was a no go.
Enter Vista and two brand-new copies of Outlook 2007, setting us back about $160. We were still on Outlook but now the new Outlook was even more bloated and slow, and its e-mail client still couldn’t seem to figure out how to manage IMAP mail any better than its predecessor. Now we had more frustration than less. Then Traci bought an iPhone, replacing her Palm Z22, but still used Outlook (this time via MobileMe).
Outlook persisted, like a virilent fungus growing between the toes while I burned the midnight oil looking for a replacement that would do everything we needed. Evolution looked good but I couldn’t get it to sync with the PDA on Windows. I couldn’t just ditch everything and move to Linux either. OpenOffice had a stagnant project designed to replace Outlook but I gave up on that. Syncing Horde didn’t seem any more of a reality either, particularly with the new iPhone. We needed something special, something unique and capable to make this a reality.
Then came the iMac.
We bought Traci’s iMac first and as she …read more »
