Thunderbird Mail Client
I have been a Microsoft fan for nearly 20 years now. I have never bought into the arguments and the debates about Microsoft being a “Evil” company and so on. I felt Microsoft was smart in the 80’s and 90’s and built an empire on making a very “nerd” like world into something the common person can use. I have now been an IT Manager for nearly 5 1/2 years now and I have been using Microsoft products for our company. In the last two years, I have begun to get frustrated with Microsoft. The Security issues, the lack of tabbed browsing in the Internet Explorer product and Outlook becoming such a complicated product with pretty much the same features since 2000.
I began using Firefox Browser about a year ago and I have not turned back since. I love it. Very flexible, pop ups are virtually non existing and the extensions and add ons are very useful and easy to use.
I have just downloaded Thunderbird. This is a full featured mail client which for the most part to the common user, would relate and work just like Outlook in basic form. It is easy to use, the application is stripped down and does not try to be an all in one product.
I have noticed you can import your Outlook client settings easily like Firefox does for Internet Explorer. Also, Thunderbird works with Active Directory for exchange server access. I am going to test this thoroughly and possibly use this for now on. I think for a company that does not want to spend lots of money on licenses, this may be a viable option!
