Today I moved from Thunderbird to Outlook 2003. I don’t know if I’ll soon how quickly I’ll go back to the familar surroundings of Thunderbird, but it sure has been pissing me off lately. I have to attribute this misbehaviour only to the fact that it is still in version 0.9.

I am not a great fan of Outlook although it is my lifeline at work. I use an older version (Outlook 2000) there. Although I am quite at ease with it, l think the program’s usability is very retarded - and with MS, you can never be sure when your computer’s security can get compromised. Since it is not my headache to worry about computer security at work, I can fire up Outlook and check for mails with no fear. Can’t say the same about using it at home.

I have never used this new version (which has a lot of visible changes), so I have to be fair and comment only after using it for sometime. However, I can comment about the calender that comes with Outlook - it rocks! The calender has faithfully reminded me about countless meetings & appointments, and I have to say that it’s a great utility. Any appointment, I have to just set up and forget about it. I also love the way the calender is built into Outlook. I know Mozilla is coming up with a similar calender called Sunbird, although I am not sure how effective it is. I have a hunch that my Thunderbird has been crashing lately because of Sunbird - which I installed just recently to check out. Or maybe it’s the ‘minimize to tray’ extension that is causing it to crash. Anyways, I don’t like the fact that to view Sunbird from Thunderbird, you have to go via Tools>Calender.…

I completed the first draft of the help file for W.bloggar today. My right arm seems to be getting old too fast - I had to stop working because of a severe ache. And to add to my misery, Marcelo’s (the guy who wrote W.bloggar) mailbox doesn’t accept .chm files as attachments. I forwarded the mailer demaon to bring that to his notice and got another demaon with the following message - “This message has been rejected because it has a potentially executable attachment “Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender.eml”“. Now is that dumb or what!!

Even as I write this, Outlook is acting very funny…looks like it’s going to be just a one night stand affair…..

Update:

Looks like it’s the minimize to tray extension that’s incompatible with Sunbird.