Any Free non Outlook Exchange Clients?
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@Dashrender said:
OWA?
I feel dirty by association for that recommendation. One of my most hated things ever is outlook web access.
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@MattSpeller said:
@Dashrender said:
OWA?
I feel dirty by association for that recommendation. One of my most hated things ever is outlook web access.
Funny - I think Scott loves it.... I know I use it all day long for my O365 account.
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@Dashrender I.... I can't even think of a good meme to show my horror at that statement
I mean to each their own and all, but.... shudder
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@MattSpeller said:
@Dashrender said:
OWA?
I feel dirty by association for that recommendation. One of my most hated things ever is outlook web access.
That's all that I use. While not very good, I find it better than Outlook. If you use Exchange, it's the best solution I've seen.
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@MattSpeller said:
@Dashrender said:
OWA?
I feel dirty by association for that recommendation. One of my most hated things ever is outlook web access.
I actually prefer OWA to Outlook... Although I really... really hate Outlook.
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@coliver said:
@MattSpeller said:
@Dashrender said:
OWA?
I feel dirty by association for that recommendation. One of my most hated things ever is outlook web access.
I actually prefer OWA to Outlook... Although I really... really hate Outlook.
That pretty much sums it up. Two bad options, but one is better than the other.
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@coliver @scottalanmiller @Dashrender
I share all your hate for outlook, but ugh, OWA is next level worse.
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@MattSpeller said:
@coliver @scottalanmiller @Dashrender
I share all your hate for outlook, but ugh, OWA is next level worse.
Have you used it since 2013?
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@MattSpeller said:
@coliver @scottalanmiller @Dashrender
I share all your hate for outlook, but ugh, OWA is next level worse.
The one that comes with O365 is surprisingly good... although I would choose almost any email interface (except Outlook) over it.
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@scottalanmiller Yes, recently. I get that it breaks less frequently and does less odd stuff (not by much). I've just invested so many hours of my life fixing outlook that I know how to do it quickly and easily. Maybe I'm a tad masochistic or it's Stockholm syndrome
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@MattSpeller said:
@scottalanmiller Yes, recently. I get that it breaks less frequently and does less odd stuff (not by much). I've just invested so many hours of my life fixing outlook that I know how to do it quickly and easily. Maybe I'm a tad masochistic or it's Stockholm syndrome
So you recognize that it is better.... but are shocked that we prefer it?
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@scottalanmiller maybe I was too generous below
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I find Outlook proper to be unbearable. So many problems. And unless you are using plugins to expand it, ugh what a horrible idea, it doesn't seem to add any value over the web interface. But lots of downsides
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If you are spending lots of time offline, sure, the fat Outlook client makes sense.
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You might be able to work some magic with Davmail Gateway and Thunderbird: http://davmail.sourceforge.net/index.html
I've used this before and it does work, but it's another moving part - - Outlook is obviously preferable since it just works with little to no configuration.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I find Outlook proper to be unbearable. So many problems. And unless you are using plugins to expand it, ugh what a horrible idea, it doesn't seem to add any value over the web interface. But lots of downsides
Calendaring is pretty much useless in a collaborative environment, though. That's my biggest gripe with the web interface. If they could get that turned around, I would use that instead in a heartbeat. Also, if you're trying to work with rules and other customizations in the Inbox, OWA doesn't handle that very well.
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@Rob-Dunn maybe my rules are just really basic or something, but they seem to work better in OWA than in Outlook, or at least on parity.
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I'm really trying to figure out what you all hate about Outlook so much, or OWA for that matter?
Prehaps I'm entirely to simple of a user to see the differences.
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@Dashrender said:
I'm really trying to figure out what you all hate about Outlook so much, or OWA for that matter?
Prehaps I'm entirely to simple of a user to see the differences.
Slow, complicated, buggy. Has nothing to do with being a power user. I'm a pretty simple user but neither Outlook nor OWA has been on par with other web interfaces that I have used in a decade.
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@Dashrender said:
I'm really trying to figure out what you all hate about Outlook so much, or OWA for that matter?
Prehaps I'm entirely to simple of a user to see the differences.
Outlook is slow, failure prone, and just all around a bad UX. Granted I like the 2013 version more then the previous ones but still...
