Question... hoping for input... Outlook vs. Palm?

[cozit]

For those of you who use, or have used, MS Outlook and Palm software both... Which do you like better, and why? (um, yes, please skip the MS is evil reasons, I know that... just trying to figure out which I'll deal with better this time around. I'm guessing Outlook, because I *think* that the versions of Office on the school Mac laptops include

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[acroyear70]

Palm's desktop software is pretty much archaic bunk.

Outlook (and O Express) is best when you have to deal with a MS Exchange server. If that's the case, i wouldn't recommend anything else. chances are, the office hasn't enabled the pop or imap interfaces anyways.

if you're dealing with open standards (POP/IMAP/SMTP, usually on unix hosts), consider Mozilla Thunderbird. the only major piece its missing right now is an integrated calendar/meeting system which exchange provides but there's no accepted web standard for calendars beyond iCal so there's nothing to follow yet (Lightning is coming, but its still early and not ready for anybody but hackers and developers).

i've been on thunderbird since 0.7 (its now version 1.5) and have been quite content.

[cozit]

I swear it's *extremely* annoyingly confusing just how many differences there are between Mac and PC Office versions... Drives me nuts going back and forth even with Excel, PowerPoint and Word (there are some things I can do more easily on PC, others on Mac, but switching my brain for something *so* close is far from amusing).

I guess I need to figure out what's actually *on* the laptops, and what I'm allowed (or not) to put on them first.

Thanks.

[cozit]

It's not in the documents themselves (unless I've picked a font that doesn't translate well), just in the user interface. Some of the menus and how you do certain things (especially in Word and PP) are just a bit different from one platform to the other. I can always figure it out eventually, as I've had enough practice changing software over the years. It's just a little bit awkward simply *because* the differences are fairly minor, and I always forget what they are until I need to do something and find that I can't do it the way that I'm used to.

Of course that silly little Apple key switch doesn't help either... but yes, I understand why it's control on one and command on the other... I just have to remember *which* I'm using at the time... same thing with dealing with no right mouse button.