![]() I have three with Gmail and another from a domain tied to a small business. So why am I bothering? Like a lot of people, I need to manage multiple accounts. Same goes for e-mail, and in fact some would argue that there's little point in bothering with a "local" (i.e., desktop) mail client at all. ![]() Most folks manage their contacts and calendar on their phones, syncing everything to a cloud destination. To say things are different now is a major understatement. A program like Outlook was the desktop side of the PDA, the big-screen manager of contacts, appointments, and to-do lists. That coincided with the rise of the PalmPilot and other PDAs, and back then there was a thriving market for personal information managers (PIMs). The program debuted in 1997 as part of Microsoft's Office 97 suite. ![]() ![]() But here's the thing: I don't want Office 365. Maybe it's to thoroughly discourage anyone from buying it, in hopes that customers will instead opt for an Office 365 subscription. What I don't understand is why Microsoft charges $109.99 for a single license. As desktop mail clients go, I think Outlook 2013 is the best option out there, and certainly the best version of the program Microsoft has ever produced.
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