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From: RichT on 12 Mar 2010 15:11
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From: Diane Poremsky [MVP] on 12 Mar 2010 16:15
I'd stick with Outlook for now. It's not going anywhere fast. Whether it
will sync with the cloud is another story - I doubt much will change, but
you can use a live account and the connector if you want everything in the
cloud.

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"RichT" <spam(a)fraybentos.com> wrote in message
news:54BFEDAB-7614-46A6-B977-66410E78028C(a)microsoft.com...
> I have been using Outlook for about ten years and so have a lot of data
> that I wish to preserve.
>
> But Microsoft seem to be abandoning Outlook (unless you use are a
> corporate user and have Exchange server). I'm a private user - but having
> online sycn across a variety of devices is still important to me. This is
> not possible with outlook - unless you have Exchange.
>
> So my question is - do I abandon outlook amd move to Windows live mail
> (with its shortfalls compared to Outlook)? Or should I hang on to Outlook
> in the hope that Microsoft will implement cloud synchronisation for
> Outlook?

From: VanguardLH on 12 Mar 2010 19:25
RichT wrote:

> Microsoft seem to be abandoning Outlook (unless you use are a corporate
> user and have Exchange server).

And where did you come up with that prediction? Guess you haven't heard
about the beta for Outlook 2010.

> I'm a private user - but having online sycn
> across a variety of devices is still important to me. This is not possible
> with outlook - unless you have Exchange.

Oh, what you really mean is that you no longer get to use the Exchange
server at your old company where you no longer work. So get an IMAP e-mail
account. Of course, whether your unidentified devices can synchronize to an
IMAP account depends on how limited is the set of e-mail protocols that
those devices support. Maybe they only support POP (POP3 is a 30-year old
messaging protocol) and haven't gotten up to speed to support IMAP (IMAP4 is
a 16-year old messaging protocol).

> So my question is - do I abandon outlook amd move to Windows live mail (with
> its shortfalls compared to Outlook)?

And what is Windows Live Mail (WLM) going to give you that you can't get in
Outlook (which presumably you have a legit license)? Based on your wrong
premise that Outlook must work with Exchange to support sync to your
"devices", and since WLM doesn't work with Exchange, just how would you lose
anything in Outlook that you wouldn't already lose in WLM?

> Or should I hang on to Outlook in the
> hope that Microsoft will implement cloud synchronisation for Outlook?

Guess you'll actually have to explain to *us* just what you really mean by
"synchronization".
From: VanguardLH on 12 Mar 2010 19:25
RichT wrote:

> I have been u

See replies to your completed query submitted 25 minutes later.
From: Leonid S. Knyshov // SBS Expert on 13 Mar 2010 00:10
On 3/12/2010 12:36 PM, RichT wrote:
> I have been using Outlook for about ten years and so have a lot of data
> that I wish to preserve.
>
> But Microsoft seem to be abandoning Outlook (unless you use are a
> corporate user and have Exchange server). I'm a private user - but
> having online sycn across a variety of devices is still important to me.
> This is not possible with outlook - unless you have Exchange.
>
> So my question is - do I abandon outlook amd move to Windows live mail
> (with its shortfalls compared to Outlook)? Or should I hang on to
> Outlook in the hope that Microsoft will implement cloud synchronisation
> for Outlook?
You can buy an individual Exchange account. I have an Apps4rent account,
for example (and I keep forgetting to cancel the thing).

Outlook is not going anywhere. It's the premier messaging platform.

Cloud synchronization has been implemented in Outlook with Gmail, Live
Mail, and many other services, in addition to hosted Exchange.
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