You can integrate Outlook with Gmail and not have to "switch between Outlook
and a Browser all day" (and, actually, this is one of the reasons I like
Outlook!)
Just create a new folder someplace (I've only done this with personal
folders, but I see no reason that it wouldn't work with system folders as
well) and call it "Gmail". Then right click the folder and choose
"properties". Now select the "Home Page" tab. Check the "Show home page by
default for this folder" and enter http://gmail.google.com
<http://gmail.google.com/> into the address. Then press "OK" and you're
set.
When you select that folder in Outlook you'll now see Gmail. Log in
(selecting "don't ask me for my password for 2 weeks" if you like).
You can, of course, also do this for any other web-based email services or
just for sites that you visit daily or that might affect your schedule (like
the corporate cafeteria menu.)
You don't get any real integration with the sites, but it is slightly easier
to move around between web and Exchange based email.
GMail won't replace Outlook for me any time soon. No integration with my
Handheld PC, no scheduling, very weak contact management, no task or notes
management, etc I love it, but it's just not even close to a replacement
technology unless you use Outlook for email and only email - and if that
were the case why would you be using Outlook in the first place?
Jim Davis
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