I've made the switch

Ginger_Ale · 19-11-2005, 16:00

I'm tired of you, Microsoft.

I used to get email with outlook (not express). It worked for a while. But recently, I've been getting copies of messages. An email someone sent me I received 7 times! If I used the web mail, it would be fine - this was outlook's problem. Every couple of days I would get it 'again'. Multiply this times a good number of my emails and somedays I would logon to 30 new messages. Jesus, I never even got this much with spam (of which I get none). So I switched. To Thunderbird.

First day: no duplicates

I've got it all set up, it's nice and pretty, it can read RSS, it's much quicker to open. I hope I don't need to turn back.

I now use a lot of different stuff:
Web - Firefox (Opera backup)
Email - Thunderbird (Webmail backup)
Images - GIMP (recently got this - very nice)
Music - iTunes
Spybot S&D + AdAware
and an assortment of other nice programs

And it's great. (and I know Paalikles will congratulate me for non MS stuff)

Ranting over.

19-11-2005, 16:00	#1
Ginger_Ale Prince Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: America. Posts: 501	I've made the switch I'm tired of you, Microsoft. I used to get email with outlook (not express). It worked for a while. But recently, I've been getting copies of messages. An email someone sent me I received 7 times! If I used the web mail, it would be fine - this was outlook's problem. Every couple of days I would get it 'again'. Multiply this times a good number of my emails and somedays I would logon to 30 new messages. Jesus, I never even got this much with spam (of which I get none). So I switched. To Thunderbird. First day: no duplicates I've got it all set up, it's nice and pretty, it can read RSS, it's much quicker to open. I hope I don't need to turn back. I now use a lot of different stuff: Web - Firefox (Opera backup) Email - Thunderbird (Webmail backup) Images - GIMP (recently got this - very nice) Music - iTunes Spybot S&D + AdAware and an assortment of other nice programs And it's great. (and I know Paalikles will congratulate me for non MS stuff) Ranting over.