Hi all,

I'm interested in what email client you use at work. We currently use a mixture of Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2003 depending on when the computer each employee uses was bought. I'd imagine most of you will use Outlook also, but other organisations may use webmail or something different.

To find out what version of Outlook you have, open it up, click on help and select "About".

Let us know by voting above. If your email client isn't listed, post and tell us about it!

Thanks,

Daniel

We (Council) use GroupWise <where's that "throwing up" smiley?>. That in itself if bad enough, but we're also "officially" still using - are you sitting down - MS Office 97 ... yes, you are reading correctly ... Office 97.

Anyway, Grouwise - compared to Outlook - would have to be the single most cumbersome, user-repelling email client out there. You know how in Outlook everything is stored in a data file ... if you have the username and password, you can open it. Not with Groupwise ... if an employee changes positions - and thus username - they need to beg our IT department to transfer their entire mailbox to the new username; and then, if for some reason the timing is off and their old username is removed from the system before the data transfer ... well, kiss your old emails, appointments, etc. good bye.

Also, in Outlook you can export just about anything ... easily and into "common" file formats. Not in Groupwise ... there's nothing to help the user ... nothing at all. I firmly believe that whoever designed Groupwise has a passionate hate for end users ... the interface is crap, it doesn't talk to anything (without forcing it), synchronising phones and PDA's is a nightmare, the Tasks module is virtually useless, rant, rant, rant ...

Drawing an analogy to technological development, I think by the time cars are floating through the air, powered by free & 100% green energy, our organisation might be ready to adopt Vista. Well, we're only just getting ready for XP and Office 2003 ... 

Anyway, that was my Friday rant ... I'll look at some bike pictures now and start grinning again ... :) 

Haha - made me laugh! I think you wanted to put this smiley...

I know from my time with the council, we were behind, but they IT guys would never use anything non-microsoft!

It was a big thing when we were rolling out Office 2003 in 2007. I think they aim to be a version behind the latest one out!

A lot of people have moans about office but I do believe Outllook is an excellent email program! We're all impressed with Excel 2007 in the office, too.

never seen groupwise, we use outlook 03 but for some stuff we still use goldmine, that to me rates alongside what you have written about groupwise!

'user-repelling'...I like it! :)